Background. Regular clinic attendance for antiretroviral (ARV) drug refills is important for successful clinical outcomes in HIV management. Methods. Clinic attendance for ARV drug refills and medication adherence using a clinic-based pill count in 392 adult patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a district hospital in Uganda were prospectively monitored over a 28-week period. Resul...

Aiming at the problems existing in the work of traditional student’s attendance, using computer technology combined with the more advanced technology of face recognition, a real-time processing intelligent management system for student’s attendance has been studied and designed. The system is mainly composed of image collector and attendance management computer. Its control core is the digital ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the associations between personality subscales and attendance at gastric cancer screenings in Japan. METHODS A total of 21,911 residents in rural Japan who completed a short form of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQ-R) and a questionnaire on various health habits including the number of gastric cancer screenings attended were included in the primary ana...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is efficacious in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). As completion rates of PR are poor, we wished to assess predictors of attendance and adherence. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of 711 patients with COPD, who were invited to attend PR. Data were compared to allow predictors (gender, smoking status, attending partner, referra...

BACKGROUND As healthcare services become progressively more stretched, there is increasing discussion of ways in which technological adjuncts may be used to deliver more cost-efficient services. Before widespread implementation, however, the use of these adjuncts requires proper scrutiny of their effects on psychological practice. AIMS This research examined the effectiveness of SMS reminders...

It is often assumed that patients with personality disorders have worse compliance in psychotherapy (i.e., attend fewer sessions) than patients without personality disorders. Such an assumption can have negative consequences for the treatment of patients with personality disorders. It also denies the presence of variability in session attendance among patients with personality disorders. Resear...

Attending group therapy sessions is necessary for a group member to have a chance at receiving benefit from the intervention. Group members' perceptions of their group's climate has been linked with important group member outcomes, including session attendance. On the basis of the writings of Curran and Bauer (2011), the current study examined group members' longitudinal ratings of session enga...

Regular clinic attendance is recommended to facilitate self-management of diabetes. Poor attendance is common among young adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM). This systematic review aimed to produce a narrative synthesis of the evidence regarding factors which promote or impede regular attendance at adult diabetes clinics among young adults (15-30 years) with type 1 DM. Studies reporting ...