OBJECTIVE Despite the high prevalence of substance abuse and mood disorders among victimized children and adolescents, few studies have investigated the association of these disorders with treatment adherence, represented by numbers of visits per month and treatment duration. We aimed to investigate the effects of substance abuse and mood disorders on treatment adherence and duration in a speci...

this study sought to determine the level of adherence to coartem© in the routine treatment of uncomplicated malaria among children under the age of five years in nyando district, kenya.seventy-three children below the age of five years with microscopically confirmed uncomplicated plasmodium falciparum malaria and prescribed coartem(®) during the normal outpatient department hours were included ...

OBJECTIVE to assess therapeutic adherence to HAART amongst HIV positive inmates and its likely relationship with sets of different variables. MATERIALS AND METHODS longitudinal study carried out at the Men's Prison of Barcelona (Centro Penitenciario de Hombres de Barcelona). The prison data base, a semi-structured interview assessing socio-penal, demographic and clinical variables as well as ...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to determine if beliefs about treatment, clinical factors and quality of life predicted adherence to treatment in patients with bronchiectasis. METHODS We recruited participants with confirmed bronchiectasis to a one-year study. We calculated adherence to treatment using medication possession ratios and self-report. Baseline Beliefs about Medicines, clinical, demographic a...

OBJECTIVE A central goal of health care is to improve patient outcomes. Although several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of therapist guided internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT) for social anxiety disorder (SAD), a significant proportion of patients do not respond to treatment. Consequently, the aim of this study was to identify individual characteristics and treatment ...

OBJECTIVES Given the increasing use of oral antineoplastic agents in cancer management, patient adherence is critical to successful treatment outcomes. This article reviews the scope of the problem and issues of adherence to oral antineoplastic agents. DATA SOURCES Research-based and other articles, newsletters, and conference presentations. CONCLUSION Suboptimal adherence to oral antineopl...

Since there is no gold-standard method of measuring adherence, one of the main difficulties in managing low adherence is a lack of accurate and affordable measures. Clinicians must frequently rely on their own judgement, but unfortunately demonstrate no better than chance accuracy in predicting the adherence of their patients (Stephenson et al, 1993), even among those for whom they feel confide...

Background: Patient adherence is a key determinant of treatment success in rheumatologic immune-mediated diseases. Available data about to biological treatments and factors associated non-adherence limited Spain. Moreover, no studies compare between subcutaneous oral drugs. Objectives: To evaluate prescribed biologicals drugs patients with diseases assess possible predictor non-adherence. Metho...