Importance Among adults with chronic illness, 30% to 50% of medications are not taken as
prescribed. In the United States, it is estimated that medication nonadherence is associated …

Medication adherence plays an important role in optimizing the outcomes of many treatment
and preventive regimens in chronic illness. Self-report is the most common method for …

Background Adherence to chronic therapy is a key determinant of patient health outcomes in
chronic disease. However, only about 50% of patients adhere to chronic therapy. One of the …

A review of 77 studies employing self-report measures of antiretroviral adherence published
1/1996 through 8/2004 revealed great variety in adherence assessment item content, format …

This meta-analysis synthesizes eighty-four observational studies, conducted across twenty
countries, to determine the mean proportion of people who reported≥ 90% adherence to …

Background Depression is a risk factor for nonadherence to HIV/AIDS treatment. Purpose A
meta-analysis was conducted to examine whether treatment of depression and …

Introduction: Successful population-level antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence will be
necessary to realize both the clinical and prevention benefits of antiretroviral scale-up and …

Poor adherence to combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) has been shown to be a major
determinant of virologic failure, emergence of drug resistant virus, disease progression …

Self-reported measures of antiretroviral adherence vary greatly in recall time periods and
response tasks. To determine which time frame is most accurate, we compared 3-, 7-day …

Background. There are only a few comprehensive studies of adherence to ART and its
challenges in Africa. This paper aims to assess the evidence on the challenges and …