The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned against administering over-the-counter cough and cold medicines to children under 2. This study evaluated whether experienced parents show poorer adherence to the FDA warning, as safe experiences are predicted to reduce the impact of warnings, and how adherence can be improved. Participants included 218 American parents (mean age: 29.98 (SD = 6.16),...

Public health debates about providing HIV antiretroviral therapy to impoverished HIV+ populations are based on the relationship between adherence and risk of drug resistance to HIV antiretroviral therapy. Early justifications for withholding antiretroviral therapy from marginalized domestic populations, such as drug users and the homeless, were mistaken for two reasons. First, levels of adheren...

Background: Identify factors affecting medication adherence is effective in the planning of patient care, education and follow-up of heart failure patients. This study aimed to investigate the correlation between type D personality and medication adherence in patients with systolic heart failure was performed. Methods: This was a descriptive -correlational study . 100 patients with systolic he...

BACKGROUND Medication non-adherence is common among renal dialysis patients. High degrees of non-adherence in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can lead to failure to detect a true treatment effect. Cardio-protective pharmacological interventions have shown no consistent benefit in RCTs involving dialysis patients. Whether non-adherence contributes to this lack of efficacy is unknown. We aime...

Background: Patient adherence is a key determinant of treatment success in rheumatologic immune-mediated diseases. Available data about to biological treatments and factors associated non-adherence limited Spain. Moreover, no studies compare between subcutaneous oral drugs. Objectives: To evaluate prescribed biologicals drugs patients with diseases assess possible predictor non-adherence. Metho...

BACKGROUND Poor adherence to antihypertensive drug regimens is believed to be a major contributor to treatment failure. Electronic monitoring of adherence may improve adherence and allow differentiation between those who are nonadherent and those who are pharmacologically nonresponsive. This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of electronic monitoring of adherence in lowering blood...

PURPOSE To determine with electronic monitoring an objective measurement of adherence in two populations of subjects: those using once-daily prostaglandin analogs as sole ocular hypotensive therapy (one-drug group) and those requiring an adjunctive medicine to the prostaglandin analog (two-drug group). DESIGN Single-site, open-label, nonrandomized, parallel design of 60 days. METHODS Sixty-...

BACKGROUND Observational studies suggest that there are differences in adherence to antihypertensive medications in different classes. Our objective was to quantify the association between antihypertensive drug class and adherence in clinical settings. METHODS AND RESULTS Studies were identified through a systematic search of English-language articles published from the inception of computeri...

Introduction Non-adherence to medications is considered as one of the largest drug related issues. WHO states that non-adherence to medications is a " worldwide problem of striking magnitude. " 1 Poor medication adherence can cause negative health outcomes such as worsening disease or even death and studies showed that there was an association between poor adherences to medications indicated fo...