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The BMQ-General also has two parts: 'General Harm' , which measures beliefs that medicines in general are harmful, addictive or poisonous; and 'General Overuse' , which measures beliefs that medicines in general are overused by doctors [ 6].
22 General beliefs include perceptions about the general harm that medicines cause and perceptions about overuse.
Patients who had higher General Overuse (P < 0.001, Spearman correlation) and General Harm scores (P < 0.001, Spearman correlation) had significantly lower adherence scores (Table 6).
A 5-item General Harm scale assesses beliefs about the intrinsic properties of medicines and the degree to which they are perceived as essentially harmful (with a higher score indicating stronger views about medicines being harmful).
The Specific Concern (P < 0.001, Mann Whitney), General Overuse (P < 0.001, Mann Whitney), and General Harm (P < 0.001, Mann Whitney) scores were significantly higher in the South Asian patients, indicating more negative views of medicine in general and with regard to their DMARDs in particular (Table 2).
6 7 We might also consider adverse drug events in the community that cause admission to hospital, polypharmacy and general harm from overtreatment. 8 All these, in the past, might have been regretted, but now receive greater attention by being viewed under the safety umbrella.
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