Introduction: Advances in biomedical technology and access to effective medications have
resulted in significant improvements in patient survival and quality of life. Patient adherence …

Abstract 'The extent to which an individual's medication-taking behaviour and/or execution of
lifestyle changes, corresponds with agreed recommendations from a healthcare provider', is …

Background Poor adherence may have a major impact on clinical outcome, contributing to
substantial worsening of disease, increased health care costs and even death. With …

Outside of healthcare settings, people use the term empathy to mean ''feeling with''another
person or putting yourself in someone else's shoes. The assumption is that emotional …

Rates of adherence and persistence with endocrine therapy regimens (ie, tamoxifen,
aromatase inhibitors) by breast cancer survivors are suboptimal, with negative implications …

There is a growing body of research on manualized self-help interventions for bulimia
nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED). Study and treatment dropout and adherence …

The aim of this meta-analysis was to explore whether mental representations, derived from
the common-sense model of illness representations (CSM), were able to predict adherence …

Psoriasis is a chronic, recurrent immune‐mediated skin disease with a 2–3% prevalence in
the Western population, which severely affects patients' quality of life and poses a …

Linking prisoners with mental illness with treatment following release is critical to preventing
recidivism, but little research exists to inform efforts to engage them effectively. This …

Background Patient adherence to follow-up plays a key role in the medical surveillance of
chronic diseases and affects the implementation of clinical research by influencing cost and …