Descriptive study with qualitative approach that aimed to understand the perspective of health professionals and hypertensive patients on their mutual interaction in the public health context, so as to analyze how this interaction contributes to non-compliance with treatment. Interviews with 15 health professionals and 10 hypertensive patients who interacted in public health units were carried ...

OBJECTIVE To assess patient compliance with psoriasis treatment. DESIGN Open prospective study. Patients with psoriasis were examined and completed a brief medical and social history, a compliance assessment sheet, and the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI). Patients were reexamined at 3 months, and their actual treatment use was assessed and compared with the expected use. Medication adhe...

BACKGROUND The challenge of understanding factors influencing compliance with injectable treatments is critical as injectable biologics/medications become more common. OBJECTIVE Understanding compliance issues for long term self-injectable treatments, using a chronic condition (osteoporosis) as a model. RESEARCH DESIGN A qualitative study to generate hypotheses regarding compliance issues f...

Background: Hypertension is an important underline cause for cardiovascular deaths worldwide. Treatment compliance for hypertension depends on a lot of factors. There is paucity of studies about awareness and compliance to antihypertensive treatment particularly in coastal areas. Our aim was to know the awareness, treatment, compliance and control of blood pressure among hypertensive patients i...

If ignored, noncompliance with a treatment or nonresponse on outcome measures can bias estimates of treatment effects in a randomizedexperiment. To identify and estimate causal treatment effects in the case where compliance and response depend on unobservables, we propose the parametric generalized endogenous treatment (GET) model. GET incorporates behavioral responses within an experiment to m...

SUMMARY We consider a Markov structure for partially unobserved time-varying compliance classes in the Imbens-Rubin (1997, The Annals of Statistics 25, 305-327) compliance model framework. The context is a longitudinal randomized intervention study where subjects are randomized once at baseline, outcomes and patient adherence are measured at multiple follow-ups, and patient adherence to their r...

This was a prospective study on the association of brace compliance and curve progression in idiopathic scoliosis. Compliance was measured electronically by embedding a temperature sensor and logger in the Wilmington scoliosis brace. To date there have been no studies that relate objective measures of compliance in a scoliosis brace to treatment outcomes. Thirty-four subjects with idiopathic sc...

We examined short- and long-term medication compliance among youth with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), using data from the National Health Insurance database in Korea. Of the 5,699,202 6-14-year-old youth in 2008, we chose those with at least 1 medical claim containing an ICD-10 code for diagnosis of ADHD (F90.0) and no prescription for ADHD within the previous 365 days. We tr...

Background: Patients' compliance consists a complex and multidimensional health issue, globally. At least three terms are used to describe the behavior of medicationtaking. Aim: The aim of the present study was to review a conceptual analysis of patients' compliance to treatment. Method and Material: The methodology included research of studies published in electronic databases such as Pub Med,...

BACKGROUND The study comprised three interrelated aims: (1) to ascertain (a) patient compliance with physiotherapy, exercise, enzyme and vitamin regimens, (b) how compliance was perceived by patients, and (c) the reasons for poor compliance (2) to identify demographic and clinical variables associated with compliance; and (3) to determine how accurately patient compliance can be predicted by ca...