Background: The development of evidence-based smoking cessation programs is in its infancy in developing countries, which continue to bear the main brunt of the tobacco epidemic. Adherence to treatment recommendations is an important determinant of the success of smoking cessation programs, but little is known about factors influencing adherence to either pharmacological or behavioral treatment...

Background and aim: Acne is a common skin disorder that can affect patient's quality of life. Most of acne patients do not seek medical treatment or are not adherent to it, while acne is a treatable condition. There are several methods that can be used to improve medical adherence, education is one of them. There are several models for patient's education. Regarding to belief and insight ...

PURPOSE To investigate factors associated with treatment non-adherence in Brazilian patients with epilepsy. METHODS Prospective cross-sectional study. We evaluated 385 epilepsy outpatients in a tertiary referral center, 18 years or older, literate, without cognitive impairment or active psychiatric disorders, who were independent in daily living activities. Data were analyzed with correlation...

Background: Different physical and mental complications in patients with stroke, and the chronic nature of the disease, require the presence of their family as the primary source of constant care and support at home. However, for many reasons, such as not receiving adequate support from the medical staff, families face many failures in managing the care programs. Aim: to investigate the effects...

BACKGROUND There have been few studies of treatment adherence in Asian patients with psoriasis and understanding of the factors is important to improve outcomes. OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of treatment adherence among Korean patients with psoriasis and to understand how the perceptions of patients and physicians affect topical treatment adherence. METHODS A cross-sectional questionnai...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to explore diabetes-related distress and depression and their influence on treatment adherence in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS We surveyed 200 type 2 diabetic patients from two public hospitals using the Diabetes Distress Scale (DDS), Zung Self-rating Depression Scale, and Revised Treatment Adherence in Diabetes Questionnaire (RADQ). ...

Background Adherence to direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in patients with atrial fibrillation every day practice may be less than clinical trials. Aims To assess adherence DOACs and identify predictors for non-adherence. Methods Individual linked dispensing data of who used were obtained from the Foundation Pharmaceutical Statistics covering Netherlands between 2012 2016. One year DOAC was ca...

Non-adherence to treatment is an increasing problem for patients with end stage renal disease under haemodialysis.Aim: This study aimed to review the basic literature mentioned to the correlation between haemodialysis patient demographic characteristics and non-adherence to their treatment regimen.Method: Studies written in English published in 2002-2013 were identified through PubMed, PubMed C...

This cross-sectional and quantitative study aimed to evaluate the adherence to drug treatment of the people with diabetes mellitus and its relation to clinical, treatment and metabolic control variables. Sample consisted of 162 people with type 2 diabetes mellitus on follow-up outpatient care. The Measure of Treatment Adherence and consultation to the participants' medical records were used for...