PATIENTS PERSPECTIVE AND AWARENESS OF WARFARIN TREATMENT AT QUEEN ALIA HEART INSTITUTE (QAHI), AMMAN-JORDAN

Rania Abu Saleh, Mohammad Farajat* and Amjad Abbadi

ABSTRACT

Objective: to explore the perspective and awareness of patients who are taken warfarin therapy at (QAHI) hospital, Amman Jordan. Method: a cross sectional survey of qualitative questionnaire to measure 95 participants patients perspective and awareness who contact and get education at anticoagulation clinic at (QAHI) hospital. Results: moderate to high degree of knowledge, perceptive, and awareness of participant patients, overall awareness is 68%, highest score related to question 4, lowest value related to question 8 by score of 52%. Conclusion: more efforts is needed of anticoagulation clinics, pursing updates and the last therapeutic guideline of warfarin treatment, educations of patients regarding drug and food interactions.

Keywords: Warfarin treatment, (QAHI), anticoagulation, blood INR.