Objectives To provide quantitative information about the overall effectiveness of adherence
interventions to improve adherence and health outcomes for children with chronic illnesses …

Objective: To review empirical studies of psychological interventions for nonadherence to
medical regimens for three chronic illnesses: asthma, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) …

Adherence improvement strategies can be broadly classified as educational, organizational,
and behavioral (Dunbar, Marshall, & Hovell, 1979). Educational strategies primarily rely on …

BACKGROUND. Most evaluations of adherence to antiretroviral therapy in children with HIV
infection have focused on validation of adherence measures via their association with …

Treatment adherence is a significant challenge within the field of paediatrics. Culture is an
important clinical variable to consider in treatment and adherence to medical regimens …

Background Among adolescents with type 1 diabetes, rapid increases in albumin excretion
during puberty precede the development of microalbuminuria and macroalbuminuria, long …

The term ''chronic illness''refers to illness that requires at least 6 months of continuous
medical care, permanent lifestyle changes, and continuous behavioral adaptation to the …

Compliance with therapy has a significant role in clinical practice and medical research.
Although the application of modern technology to the assessment of compliance has led to a …

This article presents overviews of adherence or compliance in clinical care and research,
focusing on the need to enhance research adherence. The scope of the clinical research …

Objective To develop a self-report measure of barriers to adherence and to evaluate its
reliability and validity in a sample of adolescents with asthma. Methods The Illness …