OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to explore the relationships between illness perceptions, emotional representations, treatment beliefs and reported adherence in adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF). METHODS Thirty-eight adolescents completed questionnaires assessing their perceptions of CF, beliefs about prescribed treatments and reported adherence to chest physiotherapy, enzyme suppleme...

OBJECTIVE Multisystemic therapy (MST) is perhaps the best validated treatment for youth who engage in serious and chronic antisocial behavior (Henggeler, Schoenwald, Borduin, Rowland, & Cunningham, 2009). Despite evidence suggesting that high treatment adherence is needed to achieve optimal MST outcomes, this research is limited because past studies have relied on adherence reports derived sole...

BACKGROUND Maintaining treatment adherence among the growing number of patients receiving antiretroviral treatment in Africa is a dramatic challenge. The objective of our study was to explore the results of a computerized pill count method and to test the validity, sensitivity, and specificity of this method with respect to viral load measurement in an African setting. METHODS We performed a ...

BACKGROUND Hypertension among African American women is of epidemic proportions. Nonadherence to treatment contributes to uncontrolled blood pressure in this population. Factors associated with adherence to treatment in African American women are unknown. The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with adherence to hypertension treatment in African American women. METHODS Fi...

BACKGROUND Therapeutic success in acne patients not only depends on the appropriate selection of drugs but also on the patient's treatment adherence or compliance. Lack of adherence is an important problem both in general medicine and in dermatologic practice. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of oral and written counseling on treatment adherence among acne patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS Eig...

BACKGROUND The concepts of medication adherence and Treatment satisfactions are commonly used in clinical research for assessing pharmaceutical care and improving treatment outcomes. Generally, one would expect a positive relationship between the two concepts. The objectives of this study were to investigate the factors associated with adherence to antihypertensive therapy among hypertensive pa...

global tuberculosis (tb) report (2013) has revealed that an estimated 8.6 million people developed tb of which, india accounts for almost 26% of the cases. these estimates clearly suggest that the country’s efforts to achieve millennium development goal 6 by 2015 have not delivered the desired output. in india, the tb prevention and control activities are supervised and implemented under the re...

BACKGROUND Poor adherence to medical treatment may have considerable consequences for the patients' health and for healthcare costs to society. The need to understand the determinants for poor adherence has motivated several studies on socio-demographics and comorbidity. Few studies focus on the association between risk attitude and adherence. The aim of the present study was to estimate associ...

In the era of antiretroviral therapy (ART) as prevention for transmission of HIV as well as treatment for HIV-positive individuals irrespective of CD4 cell counts, the importance of adherence has grown. Although adherence is not the only determinant of treatment success, it is one of the only modifiable risk factors. Treatment failure reduces future treatment options and therefore long-term cli...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory condition with intestinal and extraintestinal manifestations. Medications are the cornerstone of treatment of IBD. However, patients often adhere to medication poorly. Adherence to medications is defined as the process by which patients take their medications as prescribed. Treatment non-adherence is a common problem among ch...