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

Research on illness perceptions has confirmed that patients' beliefs are associated with
important outcomes in a broadening range of illnesses and risk factor testing. New …

A key factor to successful secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is optimal
patient adherence to treatment. However, unsatisfactory rates of adherence to treatment for …

OBJECTIVE: Combination therapy, specifically with aspirin, cholesterol and blood pressure-
lowering drugs, substantially reduces the risk of coronary heart disease, but the full …

Objectives This review sought to identify the empirical evidence for the application of models
from sociocognitive theory, self-regulation theory, and social support theory at predicting …

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

Despite the effectiveness of drug therapy in diabetes management high rates of poor
adherence persist. The purpose of this study was to identify potentially modifiable patient …

Background Prior studies suggest that persistence with and adherence to statin therapy is
low. Interventions to improve statin persistence and adherence have been developed over …

Background: There are increasing concerns about risks associated with aspirin
discontinuation in the absence of major surgery or bleeding. We investigated whether long …

Background: Medication beliefs of patients with a specific medical condition have been
associated with nonadherence to drugs used to treat that condition. However, associations …