The objective was to assess compliance of patients with nonl-oncologic pain and identify relationships between beliefs of health control and compliance. Thirty patients were evaluated over a period of six months, in five interviews. Compliance was classified as total, partial and non-compliance, and the Index of Correct Medication Ingestion (ICMI) was calculated. The belief about health control...

social norms are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members based on the process of social control, the level of political legitimacy and procedural justice practices in the areas of governance, social order is guaranteed. in this study, the independent variables associated with three domains of social control, procedural justice and social capital to norm comp...

BACKGROUND Asthma control and treatment compliance are widely investigated issues around the world. Studies have demonstrated relatively low asthma compliance and control in 40-90% of asthma patients in different countries. There are no available data on the Israeli adult asthmatic population OBJECTIVES To investigate the level of asthma control and compliance in adult asthmatic patients. M...

epilepsy is a disease with high prevalence, which interferes driving and may lead to car accident this case-control study has been done on 100 epileptic patients and 100 persons as control group, who had history of driving. we gathered our patients with face to face interview and registering their information in special forms which were prepared for this study. there were three times more accid...

Compliance checking is gaining importance as today’s organizations need to show that their business practices are in accordance with predefined (legal) requirements. Current compliance checking techniques are mostly focused on checking the control-flow perspective of business processes. This paper presents an approach for checking the compliance of observed process executions taking into accoun...

The complexity in planning and control of robot compliance tasks mainly results from simultaneous control of both position and force and inevitable contact with environments. It is quite difficult to achieve accurate modeling of the interaction between the robot and the environment during contact. In addition, the interaction with the environment varies even for compliance tasks of the same kin...

  Background: Epidemiological changes leading to chronic diseases are becoming more important day by day. Hypertension is also known as a chronic disease. Worldwide prevalence of hypertension have caused serious complications. The disease has become a health problem in all communities. This research aims at analyze the correlation between compliance with the treatment regimen and health locus o...

Traditional compliance control of a rehabilitation robot is implemented in task space by using impedance or admittance control algorithms. The soft robot actuated by pneumatic muscle actuators (PMAs) is becoming prominent for patients as it enables the compliance being adjusted in each active link, which, however, has not been reported in the literature. This paper proposes a new compliance con...