Observational Study to Understand Patients' and Physicians' Attitudes to Statins in TurkeY (STAY)

AstraZeneca

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypercholesterolemia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01625884

NIS-CTR-XXX-2012/1

Details and patient eligibility

About

In Turkey statin compliance is lower than EU countries. (EURIKA). We will assess the underlying causes of statin incompliance. The investigators will build patient and physician education programs to improve compliance in TURKEY. Our aim is to assess patients' and physicians' attitudes to statins by mean of HABIT Patient and Physician survey respectively.

Full description

Observational study to understand patients' and physicians' attitudes to Statins in TurkeY

Enrollment: 500 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Provision of subject informed consent Female and/or male aged over 18 years,
• Diagnosis of hypercholesterolemia according to ICD-10 classification
• Receiving at least one prescription of one statin during the last 12 months and to be an outpatient.

Exclusion criteria

• Receiving statin at the time of admittance
• Patients unable to read and/or understand the study questionnaires
• Pregnant women,
• Patients participating in randomized clinical trials and patients included in this study once