Introduction: The responsibility of the medical training teamtowards a patient referring to an academic medical center hasnot been fully clarified. In this article we have looked at currentpractice in Medical University of Isfahan and evaluated theattitude of the medical team towards patients’consent to beinvolved in medical students’education.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, conducted i...

BACKGROUND The primary aim of this study was to assess drug treatment adherence in patients with bipolar disorder and to identify factors associated with adherence. The secondary aim was to analyze the impact of suboptimal adherence on clinical and functional outcomes. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in a sample of outpatients receiving an oral antipsychotic drug. Medication adh...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the demographic, medical, and social-cognitive correlates of adherence to a presurgical exercise training intervention in patients awaiting surgery for suspected malignant lung lesions. DESIGN Pilot study, single-group, prospective design with convenience sampling. SETTING Exercise training was performed at a university research fitness center in western Canada...

Cooperation of the patient during orthodontic treatment is a major determinant of a successful treatment result. Unfortunately, noncompliance is a serious problem in orthodontics. A patient’s noncompliance can result in a longer treatment time, destruction of the teeth and periodontium, extraction of additional teeth, collapse of a corrected malocclusion after treatment, frustration for the pat...