Behavioral Interventions and Compliance to Treatment Regimes

Medication Compliance, Adherence, and Persistence: Current Status of Behavioral and Educational Interventions to Improve Outcomes

BACKGROUND: Poor adherence and persistence are serious issues in the management of chronic conditions. A mounting body of evidence indicates that decreased medication adherence is associated with increased hospitalizations and total costs of care. OBJECTIVE: To review the predictors of adherence to and persistence with medications and to discuss the intervention strategies that have been used t...

Treatment Compliance in Group Therapy: Issues and Interventions

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Compliance with treatment protocols: interventions for children with chronic illness.

The delivery of health care is, in part, dependent on the willingness and motivation of patients to follow the regimens prescribed. No matter how eVective treatments are, if children and parents do not follow instructions adequately, then health care is compromised. During the past 20 years the medical literature has been concerned with the issue of compliance, however, the current debate on ev...

Factors influencing compliance with antiepileptic drug regimes

Failure to comply with drug regimes is prevalent amongst patients with epilepsy and the consequence of this is often an increased risk of further seizures. This paper describes the level of, and influences upon, non-compliance with antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment. A postal questionnaire was sent to an unselected, community-based population of patients with epilepsy. This instrument included ...