Adherence improvement strategies can be broadly classified as educational, organizational,
and behavioral (Dunbar, Marshall, & Hovell, 1979). Educational strategies primarily rely on …

Abstract although treatment adherence is certainly an important area for investigation and
clinical practice, it is a very complex issue, especially for children and adolescents/considers …

The present chapter provides an overview of pediatric adherence and is divided into three
major sections. The first focuses on issues of definition and measurement; the second …

Objectives: Factors that appear to influence treatment adherence among adults have been
the focus of considerable research in recent years. However, less research has focused on …

The problem of getting children to follow a treatment regimen is widespread and is
frustrating for physicians. The extent to which any patient adheres to a medical regimen is an …

This chapter is designed to provide an overview of the broad and extensive literature on
adherence to medical regimens. It is intended to instruct the naive reader on the extensive …

Adherence to recommendations for health care is an area of serious concern for pediatric
psychologists. The present article highlights several key issues affecting research and …

Patient noncompliance is a substantial obstacle to the achievement of therapeutic goals.
This paper reviews a number of practical interventions with demonstrated efficacy in …

Objectives Adherence to medical regimens for children and adolescents with chronic
conditions is generally below 50% and is considered the single, greatest cause of treatment …

Based on a conference that assembled experts in the field of pediatric compliance in chronic
illness, this book presents the latest data and conceptual models of adherence to treatment …