OBJECTIVE: To examine factors preventing medication nonadherence in community-
dwelling older adults with multiple illnesses (multimorbidity). Nonadherence threatens …

Objective: This study explored the perspectives of hypertensive African-American patients, in
2 primary care practices, regarding the factors they perceived as barriers or facilitators of …

On the basis of published studies, a conceptual framework of factors that affect patient
adherence is presented. Recognizing patient nonadherence to medical therapy as a factor …

Suboptimal adherence to antihypertensive medication is a major contributor to poor blood
pressure control. Several methods, direct or indirect, are available for measuring adherence …

Achieving optimal outcomes in the treatment of hypertension—a prevalent and largely
asymptomatic disease—necessitates that patients take their medications not only properly …

The relationship between adherence to antihypertension medications, treatment satisfaction
and illness perception has not been studied so far. The primary objective of this study was to …

Purpose Medication non-adherence represents a socially relevant challenge, particularly
when interlinked to multiple chronic diseases and polypharmacy. Non-adherence rates …

Antihypertensive agents are one of the most commonly prescribed classes of medications in
the country, but patient adherence rates are low. To better understand why rates are low, the …

Objectives To determine the level of adherence to medications and characteristics of Part D
beneficiaries associated with higher levels of antihypertensive medication adherence …

Objectives This study assessed medication adherence and hypertension knowledge, and
their predictive factors, in people with hypertension, living in rural communities in Indonesia …