Adherence – Adherence to a medication is generally defined as the extent to which patients take medications as prescribed by their health care providers.
In a recent review of technology based systems targeting self-management for people with heart failure, over half of the fourteen papers identified reported significant improvements in behaviours such as daily weighing, medication management, exercise adherence, dietary adherence and stress reduction.
Medication adherence – a constant challenge in the elderly – is high.
Level of symptoms was correlated negatively and significantly with self-reported medication adherence and medication adherence self-efficacy.
Outcomes were assessed using the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), EuroQoL (EQ-5D), Bipolar Knowledge and Attitudes and Questionnaire (BKAQ), and a self-reported measure of medication adherence (Morisky Medication Adherence Scale-4 items, MMAS-4).
Many intervention trials designed to improve medication adherence have targeted adults with adherence problems.
To provide an overview of medication adherence, discuss the potential for smartphone medication adherence applications (adherence apps) to improve medication nonadherence, evaluate features of adherence apps across operating systems (OSs), and identify future opportunities and barriers facing adherence apps.
Background: Effective treatment of bipolar disorder depends on medication adherence, yet few correlates of adherence have been identified.
Each patient's demographic, medications and anthropometric data was obtained while information on medication adherence was captured using Morisky adherence scale-8 (MMAS-8).
This study aimed to investigate whether the score of self-reported medication adherence using the Medication Adherence Report Scale (MARS-5) correlates with the serum level of antiepileptic medication, as well as whether the MARS-5 score can predict the quality of life (QoL) in patients with epilepsy.
