Background and Objective: Diabetes is a chronic disease and affects many aspects of daily life. Adherence to treatment regimens is one of the major problems in the treatment of patients with diabetes and affected by psychiatric disorders. Depression is a common disorder in these patients which in addition to the impact on the course of treatment can also worsen the prognosis of the disease. The...

Background & aim: Treatment adherence is one of the main factors in achieving maximum clinical efficacy. It seems that self-compassion and coping strategies of patients, can be effective on improving treatment adherence. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of coping strategies in the relationship between self-compassion with treatment adherence in cardiovascular patients...

Background and Objectives: Although social support seems to be effective in adherence to the treatment of hypertension, its effects in hypertensive patients have not been well documented. The current study tried to clarify the relationship between social support and adherence to the treatment in patients with hypertension.  Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study applied censu...

Background: One of the public health challenges in the worldwide is diabetes, and adherence to treatment is crucial. Adherence to treatment can help reduce the complications of the disease. Therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the status of adherence to treatment among patients with type 2 diabetes in Khorramabad. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 392 men and wom...

Abstract Background: Concerns about the known consequences of non adherence to standard treatment protocols by physicians in patients suffering from ACS and the lack of any dependable statistics as regards the degree of adherence in Iran and also the existence of different statistics on the subject in different countries led the present researchers to conduct an investigation to determine th...

Background: The number of coronary artery bypass grafts is increasing as one of the most effective treatments. Adherence to the treatment regimen is one of the determinants of the effectiveness of this intervention. The aim of this study was to evaluate the compliance of treatment regimen in patients underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Tehran's Social Security Hospitals. Materials...

  Abstract   Background & Aims: patient compliance with therapeutic regimen predicts successful treatment and reduces the severity of negative complications. The aim of this study was determination of relationship between adherence to therapeutic regimen and health related quality of life in hypertensive patients in 2012.   Material & Methods: It was a descriptive- correla...