The risk associated with safe medications was perceived to be higher by non-pregnant women as compared with the pregnant women.
Insulin was perceived as more helpful for diabetes, while antihypertensives and cholesterol medication were perceived more helpful for preventing heart problems.
Results suggest that, having free access to previously unaffordable high quality care, from a healthcare center headed by a physician who was highly respected in the community, and to Western medication, were perceived as important facilitators for being adherent to medications, as was the perception that hypertension is a serious condition.
First, older patient and family reluctance to try an opioid medication was perceived to be a major barrier.
Although medication was perceived as necessary in alleviating impairment, many felt strongly that by itself, it was inadequate.
Use of regular medication is perceived by many people to indicate a loss of autonomy and to imply weakness [ 33].
Furthermore, initiating ACE-I in patients already using a diuretic or stable on their current medication was perceived as barrier.
They regarded that up-to-date and evidence-based information on medication and its potential side-effects should be presented since effective medication was perceived a prerequisite for PA.
In spite of this, the general practitioners clearly expressed wish for increased possibilities for referral may indicate that medication is perceived as an insufficient tool when treating common mental disorders like depression.
