Abstract:Objective To analyze the influencing factors for medication compliance in patients with first-episode acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Methods A total of 223 AIS patients admitted in our Neurology Department from September 2017 to March 2018 were enrolled in this study. According to Morisky medication adherence scale, they were divided into poor compliance group (score<6 points, n=107) and good compliance group (score≥6 points, n=116). The clinical features, recurrence and prognosis 1 year later were compared between the 2 groups. SPSS statistics 20.0 was used to analyze the data. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was employed to analyze the influencing factors of medication compliance. Results The proportion of patients with good compliance was 50.02% (116/223). Compared with the poor compliance group, the good compliance group had significantly higher proportions of medical insurance reimbursement, monthly income (>¥1500), urban household registration, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, taking antihypertensive drugs, and taking antidiabetic drugs, while obviously lower proportions of farmers, lower educational level, recurrence of stroke after 1 year and having the score of Modified rankin scale<3 (all P<0.05). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that medical insurance reimbursement (OR=0.289,5%CI 1.326-9.002; P=0.011), taking antihypertensive drugs (OR=2.451,5%CI 1.064-5.646; P=0.035) and hypoglycemic drugs (OR=9.515,5%CI 1.949-46.452; P=0.005) were protective factors for drug compliance, while farmers (OR=0.320,5%CI 0.146-0.702; P=0.004), monthly income less than ¥1500 (OR=0.471,5%CI 0.238-0.932; P=0.031), educational level of primary school or lower (OR=0.376, 95%CI 0.168-0.844; P=0.018) were risk factors for drug compliance. Conclusion The patients with good medication compliance have a lower recurrence rate and better prognosis 1 year later. Active attention should be paid to management of the patients without medical insurance reimbursement, with monthly income less than ¥1500, with educational level of primary school or lower, farmers, without hypertension or diabetes mellitus, and having not taken antihypertensive and antidiabetic drugs.