The term "product adherence" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe the degree to which a product or service meets the standards set for it. For example, "The company is dedicated to ensuring high product adherence to its customers."
When an organization is racing to be the first to develop a product, adherence to safety standards can grow lax.
Ensuring high product adherence is another important challenge in the successful conduct of HIV prevention studies.
In the Carraguard vaginal gel efficacy trial, product adherence was assessed through self-reports, counting returned applicators and a staining test that was meant to show which applicators had been vaginally inserted [7], [8], [9].
At each quarterly follow-up visit, we conducted HIV and STI counseling and testing, treatment of curable STIs (as applicable), product adherence and risk reduction counseling and pregnancy testing.
Coital and/or product adherence diaries provide one relatively low-tech approach to measuring adherence.
Risk perception may importantly contribute to study product adherence in PrEP RCTs.
Since then MBDC has been brought on by companies such as carpet maker Shaw Industries (a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Aveda and Herman Miller to advise and to certify (for a fee) their products' adherence to the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) design principles.
Interviewers were different staff members from those who conducted the quantitative study-product adherence questionnaire, and they were not involved in any clinical or adherence-related activities.
Adherence counselling was provided by trained counsellors; participants' answers to the quantitative study-product adherence questionnaire were not reviewed by counselors prior to counseling.
Toward the beginning of every visit and prior to counseling on adherence, local FEM-PrEP study interviewers administered a quantitative study-product adherence questionnaire at the study clinic; counselors did not administer the questionnaire.
Several outcome measures were examined including references and claims provided in advertisements, availability of product information, adherence to codes or guidelines and presentation of risk results.
