Over the past few decades we have witnessed several phases in the development of
approaches aimed at ensuring that patients continue therapy for chronic conditions for long …

Background Many patients experience difficulties in adhering to long-term treatment.
Although patients' reasons for not being adherent are diverse, one of the most commonly …

Adherence to therapies is a primary determinant of treatment success. Poor adherence
attenuates optimum clinical benefits and therefore reduces the overall effectiveness of …

This paper presents a novel method for assessing cognitive representations of medication:
the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ). The BMQ comprises two sections: the …

Abstract The Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) is a new method for assessing cognitive
representations of illness. The IPQ is a theoretically derived measure comprising five scales …

The present study was designed to evaluate the degree to which variations in reported
adherence to preventer medication for asthma could be explained by two sets of beliefs …

Purpose Hypertension (HT) is considered to be the most common disorder in the general
population. Demographic data indicate that older adults commonly suffer from HT. Older age …

Background and Purpose. This cowelational study describes factors that are related to
patient compliance with exercise regimens during physical therapy. We investigated …

Intervention strategies that can produce successful rates of long-term behavior change have
proven elusive and indicate the need for new approaches to this vexing problem. However …

About half or more of the patients with chronic psychiatric illnesses, either do not take their
medications correctly, or completely stop taking them. The problem of poor initial compliance …