Patients’ low adherence to medical treatment in chronic illnesses is one of the biggest public health problems. Numerous studies attend to the diverse factors associated with patient adherence. However, little research ...

Aim: To compare subjective and objective measures of adherence to prophylaxis in haemophilia. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we compared participants’ self-perceived adherence and their estimate of the number of ...

Background: Imperfect adherence is a major barrier to effective primaquine radical cure of Plasmodium vivax. This study investigated the effect of reduced adherence on the risk of P. vivax recurrence. Methods: Efficacy ...

Aims To identify real-world factors affecting adherence to insulin therapy in patients with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods A literature search was conducted in PubMed and EMBASE in November 2011 to identify ...

© 2021 ARAN Ediciones S.A.. All rights reserved.Introduction: a gluten-free diet (GFD) is the treatment for celiac disease (CD), with adherence oscillating between 42 % and 91 %. The purpose of this study was to assess ...

Adherence is the milestone of a successful therapy. Over the last decade several authors have addressed the importance of adherence for optimal results of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. Many health care systems are investing ...

Solid-organ transplant recipients present a high rate of non-adherence to drug treatment. Few interventional studies have included approaches aimed at increasing adherence. The objective of this study was to evaluate the ...

Introduction: In the 1990s, Brazil adopted a public policy that allowed for universal, free access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Since then, treatment adherence has become a new challenge for administrators of sexually ...