Background Patients' beliefs about treatment influence treatment engagement and
adherence. The Necessity-Concerns Framework postulates that adherence is influenced by …

Adherence to medication in patients with rheumatoid arthritis is low, varying from 30 to 80%.
Improving adherence to therapy could therefore dramatically improve the efficacy of drug …

Objective This meta-analysis investigated whether beliefs in the necessity and concerns of
medicine and the necessity–concerns differential are correlated with medication adherence …

Background Non-adherence impacts negatively on patient health outcomes and has
associated economic costs. Understanding drivers of treatment adherence in immune …

Objectives To identify factors associated with adherence to medication for rheumatoid
arthritis or undifferentiated inflammatory arthritis using a systematic literature search …

Background. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease affecting<
1% of the population. Incompletely controlled RA results in fatigue, joint and soft tissue pain …

Objectives. To investigate levels of self-reported adherence to biologic treatment and
establish the contribution of demographic, physical and psychological factors to biologic …

Background Poor adherence to therapy is a significant healthcare issue, particularly in
patients with chronic disease such as open‐angle glaucoma. Treatment failure may …

AIM: This paper synthesizes findings from available research about medication adherence
to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in the population with rheumatoid …

Objective This study examines the determinants of patients' side effects from arthritis
medication. Proposed predictors were patients' beliefs about medications, objective disease …