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Health Literacy and Medication Adherence
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Self-efficacy and rehabilitation adherence
… the role of self-efficacy on rehabilitation adherence has not directly been evaluated. Furthermore, the particular nature of self-efficacy related to athletic participation, injury, and subsequent rehabilitation, as well as the role an athletic trainer plays in enhancing or diminishing one's …
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Motivational Aspects of Exercise Adherence
The major purpose of this study was to determine if different goal orientations exist for individuals participating in an exercise program and to determine if these goal orientations could be used to differentiate between those who drop out and those who adhere to the exercise program. A secondary …
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Adherence to aspirin treatment during pregnancy
This study aimed to investigate treatment adherence to aspirin among Icelandic pregnant individuals and how well they understand the purpose of aspirin use. Also, explore knowledge of risk factors and identify factors contributing to inadequate adherence to aspirin. Preeclampsia is a …
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Economic impact of medication non-adherence
𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: Medication non-adherence is a global issue of major public health concern highlighted by the causal link between non-adherence, increased disease prevalence and health care resource use. Cost assessment of the economic burden lacks uniformity and consistency in determination. The use of …
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The ARV Treatment Adherence Model: A Qualitative Study on Antiretroviral (ARV) Treatment Adherence for People Living with HIV
<p>Adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment improves life expectancy and other health outcomes for people living with HIV (PLWH). It also minimizes their risk of transmitting HIV through sexual contact and is therefore a form of HIV prevention. However, many PLWH, specifically low-income PLWH of …
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Gamification for a healthier lifestyle – user adherence
… to tackle the issue of behavior change and user adherence. BCTs are techniques to help individuals change their behavior to adapt to a healthy lifestyle, and SDT is a theory in which individuals motivate themselves. The pilots were conducted to measure the impact of BCTs and SDTs with …
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Cultural and Psychological Influences on Diabetic Adherence
… et al, 1985; Vinicor, et al, 1996) yet treatment adherence, and thus outcome, is very poor (Gonder-Frederick, Cox, & Ritterband, 2002; Goodall, 1991). Culture is a lethal risk factor for diabetic contraction and treatment maintenance. Latinos within the United States are two-to-three times more …
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Heart-focused Anxiety and Cardiac Treatment Adherence
… impairment in North America. Treatment adherence in general is a major obstacle for the cardiac population. Anxiety is a potential barrier to treatment adherence, yet results of previous studies are equivocal, possibly due to anxiety being measured too generally. Heart-focused anxiety …
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Adherence therapy for people with Parkinson's disease
Introduction: Medication non-adherence is prevalent in Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, factors associated with non-adherence are unknown. Despite interventions to improve medication adherence being investigated in long-term conditions, few studies have focused on PD. Adherence Therapy (AT) is a …
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Understanding Dietary Adherence in Elderly Diabetes Patients
… Little is known about what influences adherence in older patients, even though they comprise the majority of those who need care. Therefore, the research objective was to understand dietary adherence in elderly diabetes patients. Two models, the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Theory …
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Adherence to a work-site relaxation program
… the effects of enhanced perception of control on adherence to a worksite relaxation program. The design was a 2 x 2 between subjects manipulation in which desire for control was an individual difference measure and condition was an experimenter assigned treatment. Subjects were randomly assigned …
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Association Between Posttraumatic Growth, Medication Adherence, and Barriers to Adherence in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Patients and Their Caregivers
… evaluate 1) the role of medication nonadherence and BTA on PTG, and 2) PTG's influence on medication nonadherence and barriers to adherence (BTA). It was hypothesized that 1) Greater baseline medication nonadherence and BTA would predict greater follow-up PTG, and 2) greater baseline …
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Measuring Therapist Adherence to a Manual-Based Treatment Tested in a Community Setting: The PASCET Manual Adherence Scale (P-MAS)
… develop and test a rigorous measure of therapist adherence to a cognitive-behavioral, manual-based treatment for childhood and adolescent depression. This project employed data from the recently completed UCLAYouth Anxiety and Depression Treatment study. This study aimed to advance the literature …
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Using electronic methods of adherence monitoring and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) to eliminate discordance between antiretroviral adherence and virological failure
Background: Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is critical: only 70% achieve viral suppression at a year. Current adherence methodologies, with slow reaction to missed dosing, inadequately predict virological outcomes. Ideal adherence methods would be cheap, easy to use, and allow rapid …
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Adherence to Antihypertensive Medications among African Americans Adults
<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To describe adherence to antihypertensive medications among African Americans adults aged 35 to 65 years in south Los Angeles.</p> <p><strong>Study Aims:</strong> <em>Aim 1:</em> Describe patient sociodemographic factors (age, gender, education, insurance, employment, …
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Improving medication adherence in older adults prescribed polypharmacy
Introduction<br/>Medication adherence is vital to ensuring optimal patient outcomes, particularly amongst older adults prescribed polypharmacy. However, complex interventions aimed at improving adherence have shown only limited effectiveness. To maximise effectiveness, the Medical Research Council …
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Fostering Medication Adherence: An Application of Mental Models
Medication non-adherence is a public health issue that stems across therapeutic areas and worsens over time. Research suggests that patients and providers have various mental models or understandings of non-adherence, and that each understanding calls for different interventions. This qualitative …
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Representations of illness: patient satisfaction, adherence and coping
… literature on patients' satisfaction with care, adherence to treatment recommendations and coping with chronic illness. It highlights omissions in the literature which are addressed by the current research. Chapter 3 provides a systematic description of people's representations of 37 different …
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Adherence to STARD 2015 Reporting Recommendations in Pathology
… such as test-induced adverse events, overall adherence to STARD reporting recommendations was 50%. There was substantial variation in individual item reporting, with > 75% reporting of 8/34 items and 75% reporting of 8/34 items and < 25% reporting of 11/34 items. Less than 10% of the articles …
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