BACKGROUND Little is known about the attitudes toward, use of, and perceived barriers to clinical guidelines in Switzerland, a country with no national guideline agency. Moreover, there is no available data on the objective assessment of guideline knowledge in Switzerland. Therefore, we conducted a study at a large university's Department of General Internal Medicine in Switzerland to assess ph...

objective: non-compliance is one of the major problems in treatment of patients with schizophrenia. it is also the most significant risk factor for relapse and re-hospitalization. previous studies showed that 25-70% of all patients with schizophrenia have negative attitudes to drugs. therefore, the present study aimed to identify the relationship between drug attitude and discharge and the rate...

b a c k g r o u n d & aim: today, one of the leading causes of pathogenicity and mortality in patients undergoing hemodialysis is their failure to follow the treatment plan. the present research was con- ducted to compare effects of patient-centered  education with family-centered  education on adher- ence with the treatment program. methods & materials: this clinical trial was performed betwee...

BACKGROUND Despite considerable efforts to promote and support guideline use, adherence is often suboptimal. Barriers to adherence vary not only across guidelines but also across recommendations within guidelines. The aim of this study was to assess the perceived barriers to guideline adherence among GPs by focusing on key recommendations within guidelines. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectio...

purpose : childhood blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity (rop) is an important concern, but this blindness or severe visual impairment may be prevented if at risk infants are screened before occurrence of advanced stages. in this study, we tried to find the role of parental education about rop in parents’ compliance for on-time attendance for rop screening. methods : demographic factors ...

background: hyperlipidemia is one of the most important factors in progression of coronary heart diseases, because of the importance of lipid control for preventing heart disease; this study has done to explore the relation between health beliefs and medications adherences in patients with hyperlipidemia. methods: this correlation study has done in 82 patients with hyperlipidemia. for obtain in...

Abstract Although antipsychotic drugs have been effective in reducing symptoms of schizophrenia, issues with adherence to these agents continue to be a barrier to the implementation and delivery of a successful treatment plan. An estimated 25% of patients with schizophrenia are partially adherent or non-adherent within 7-10 days of beginning therapy. There are some ways to evaluate the pharmaco...

We applied the strength-energy model of self-control to understand the relationship between self-control and young athletes' behavioral responses to taking illegal performance-enhancing substances, or "doping." Measures of trait self-control, attitude and intention toward doping, intention toward, and adherence to, doping-avoidant behaviors, and the prevention of unintended doping behaviors wer...