Stroke and Treatment Burden

Question 1

What is treatment burden and why does it arise?

Answer 1

Workload/impact of healthcare for individual managing a long term condition. It occurs due to the volume of work or care deficiencies

Question 2

What is patient capacity and factors which can affect it?

Answer 2

The degree to which patients can cope with management of their illness.
Can be affected by personal skills, physical and cognitive abilities, support network, financial status, workload, environment

Question 3

How can you help with treatment burden?

Answer 3

• Investigate why patients struggle with meds and work out a method to improve this.
• Investigate why patients don’t attend appointments and see how you can help