Alternatively, higher adherence for those prescribed NNRTI regimens could be explained by fewer intolerable side effects.
The 2 cost-effectiveness analyses that looked at differential adherence among screening tests both assumed a higher adherence for FOBT compared with endoscopy (40, 47).
In summary, this pilot study had a relatively high adherence rate for use of all components of the intervention; the pedometer, physical activity diary and response to daily messages.
Most patients were very confident that they would use their preferred medication as prescribed (preferred medication: 90.8 %, n = 157/173; nonpreferred medication: 46.2 %, n = 80/173) and indicated a high adherence level for medications free of local irritation effects (83.8 %, n = 145/173; Fig. 3).
Whereas community nurses' adherence to the delivery of the component of praise for positive changes was high, adherence was low for some key cognitive and behavioural skills, for example negative self-talk and identification of barriers.
Participants in the exercise intervention group will be grouped according to high adherence (> median adherence for the full group) and low adherence (≤ median adherence level).
In this study, maintenance HD patients exhibited high adherence to EMA for symptom documentation through 7 consecutive days.
The present study result may indicate that standard care offered by an NHS Glaucoma Clinic was sufficient to promote high adherence with travoprost for the population studied.
In contrast to our findings of high adherence to recommendations for EBF until 5.5 months post-partum, a recent study to examine feeding practices among HIV-infected and uninfected mothers in Kisumu, Kenya, where this clinical trial was conducted, found only 14% of HIV-infected women practiced EBF for the first 6 months post-partum [ 24].
