Compliance, or adherence, as it relates to health care is the extent to which a person's
behavior coincides with medical or health advice. Medication compliance is critical for all …

Background Contracts are a verbal or written agreement that a patient makes with
themselves, with healthcare practitioners, or with carers, where participants commit to a set …

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

Background Adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) must cope with the ongoing stress of
treatment management, so it is important to identify the most adaptive coping strategies …

Background Children aged 6–12 years are usually seen in primary care with an adult carer.
It is a government and professional priority for doctors to try and involve these children in …

Transition is a generic issue for subspecialties dealing with chronic illness and has received
little attention to date. Transfer to adult care occurs at the end of a transition process that …

Motivational interviewing (MI) is an empirically supported intervention with a large
evidentiary base in the adult behavioral medicine and addictions literature. In the last …

Medical terminology is at continuous process of change since the language of medicine
needs the rapid incorporation of new terms or changing the existing ones to be in touch with …

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