Quality of life and other patient-related outcomes may improve regardless of therapeutic adherence or worsen in case of good adherence (for example because of treatment-induced adverse events).
In addition, association between use of antiretroviral therapy and IPV requires further investigation in longitudinal community based studies, given its grave possible repercussions at the personal and public health levels, resulting from viral resistance that could develop in case of poor adherence to medication.
Figure 1B also shows the various deviations in case of non-adherence (42.1%, 227/539).
In case of non-adherence to the recommendations, valid arguments for deviating were observed in the majority of these cases.
Providing information was our respondents' strategy of choice in case of non-adherence, with the intention of increasing parents' knowledge on asthma.
In case of non-adherence when remission was absent (42.1%, 227/539), most frequently medication was not intensified when an intensification step should have been taken (34.9%, 188/539).
In case of non-adherence when remission was present (19.5%, 108/553), most frequently medication was tapered off or discontinued when it should have been continued (7.2%, 40/553) or treatment was continued when it should have been tapered off or discontinued (6.2%, 34/553).
There is less variability among neoplasms in the case of adherence to the clinical criteria for inclusion of possible patients in the circuits, with the proportions being >70% in all three cases.
The first line of action in case of problems with adherence relates to self-monitoring (see above).
