Research has repeatedly shown that a higher score on the PAM is positively associated with various health related behaviours, such as preventive care and lifestyle behaviours, information seeking and use of health information, health outcomes and healthcare use, monitoring and medication adherence, conduct in the patient-provider encounter and self-management [ 3, 4].
We identified a good (MPR ≥ 80%) and a poor (MPR < 80%) medication adherence group to conduct statistical analyses.
For more than four decades, numerous researches on how to properly measure and quantify medication adherence have been conducted but none of them can be counted as the gold standard.
The comprehensive intervention program targets the primary care system through health care provider education, a home-based intervention among patients and their families (home delivery of antihypertensive medication, self-monitoring of blood pressure [Bp], health education for medication adherence and lifestyle modification) conducted by community health workers and a mobile health intervention.
This research aims to fill some of those research gaps by conducting evaluations of medication adherence for people with statin therapy.
With young adults being those that are most often newly infected, research needs to be conducted to assess medication adherence barriers, specific to young adults with HIV.
Thus, it is beneficial to utilize various strategies in determining medication adherence, including reviewing pharmacy refill records and conducting focused patient medication adherence interviews.
A similar study — measuring PrEP and other medication adherence among discordant couples to ensure safer pregnancies — was conducted by the Washington University at Seattle, also with useful results.
I joined this project team with the goal to expand upon the knowledge of medication adherence I'd developed from research I had previously conducted, which had explored medication adherence in patients with cardiovascular disease.
A cross-sectional study was conducted, adopting the Morisky eight-item Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS) for the assessment of medication adherence and using the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM 1.4) for the assessment of treatment satisfaction.
We believed that the patient perspective was important in rounding out the reasons why patient medication adherence rates are so low, so we employed qualitative research methods, conducting a mix of focus groups and individual interviews, to understand the medication adherence behaviors of RA patients.
