Dietary modification is central to obesity treatment. Weight loss diets are available that
include various permutations of energy restriction, macronutrients, foods, and dietary intake …

Background Patients' adherence to therapeutic regimes may be influenced by subjective
beliefs about chronic conditions. One of the challenges for health professionals in …

Placebo effects constitute a major part of treatment success in medical interventions. The
nocebo effect also has a major impact, as it accounts for a significant proportion of the …

Background People who are prescribed self administered medications typically take only
about half their prescribed doses. Efforts to assist patients with adherence to medications …

Social-cognitive models such as the theory of planned behavior have demonstrated efficacy
in predicting behavior, but few studies have examined the theory as a predictor of treatment …

Objetivos: Describir los factores que pueden influir en la adherencia a los tratamientos
farmacológicos y las intervenciones que han sido desarrolladas para su mejora. Métodos …

Background End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients are often prescribed multiple
medications. Together with a demanding weekly schedule of dialysis sessions, increased …

Background Polypharmacy, and the associated adverse drug events such as non-
adherence to prescriptions, is a common problem for elderly people living with multiple …

On average only fifty percent of people with long term conditions are adherent to their
treatment across diverse disease and patient groups (Holloway & van Dijk, 2011; Sabaté …

Aims: We aimed to assess and characterize sex differences in adverse drug reactions
(ADRs) reported to the national pharmacovigilance centre in the Netherlands while …