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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"pill count"”.
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Mental health and antiretroviral therapy adherence among people living with HIV attending an HIV clinic in Blantyre, Malawi
… related harms. ART adherence was assessed using pill count, a self-report measure and a combined measure of both pill count and self-report adherence. Results: The prevalence of depressive symptoms among the participants was 32%, 26% for anxiety symptoms and 16% of participants reported any …
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The relationship of commitment and self-efficacy to adherence with a medical regimen
… and State University. Adherence was assessed by pill counts obtained in unannounced home visits 7 to 10 days after the regimen was prescribed and by subjects’ self-reports. Pre- and posttest measures of self- efficacy and outcome expectancy were completed by subjects. Significantly more subjects …
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Cognition, Adherence and Stigma in Schizophrenia. The COAST study
… (MEMS®), considered the reference standard, pill count, a composite measure of plasma levels and adherence to lab visits, and patient, staff, psychiatrist and close informant ratings. Symptom burden, insight, cognition, psychoso¬cial function (PSP) and side effects were rated (n=112). …
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The impact of medication therapy management on polypharmacy in people living with HIV/AIDS
… was used to find the difference between the pill count and the polyactive substances in medicines used by PLWHA. A longitudinal data analysis using a generalized estimating equation was used to assess the impact of MTM intervention on polypharmacy over time by determining the change in …
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Using electronic methods of adherence monitoring and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) to eliminate discordance between antiretroviral adherence and virological failure
… during the study: selfrecall (SR), clinic-based pill count (CPC), pharmacy refill data (PR-average or PR-gaps) and efavirenz concentration. The predictive value of each adherence methodology on virological and HIV-1 resistance outcomes was compared by calculating the area under the receiver …
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Cell-Life: a needs assessment study for an HIV/AIDS management tool
… effective home based care and reducing pill count dependence at the clinic. With the aid of the Cell-Life SIM card menu (please see Appendix A, page 63) on a cell-phone the therapeutic counsellor is equipped with a live-link to the clinic or doctor while visiting patients. The menu …
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Paediatric antiretroviral HIV treatment : measurement and correlates of adherence in a resource-poor setting
… caregiver self-report (CSR), medicine measure/pill count, pharmacy refill and clinic attendance. Child, caregiver, socio-economic and health service characteristics were assessed for impact on adherence. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used to determine agreement between measures and …
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Evaluation of Factors that Affect Antiretroviral Adherence in Siavonga District, Zambia
Zambia is among the countries with high prevalence of HIV in the world, estimated at 16% among the adult population (ZDHS 2002). Noting the importance of adherence in HIV/AIDS treatment a case controlled study was conducted to understand factors that make people on Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) not …