Variations in Patients’ Adherence to Medical Recommendations: A Quantitative Review of 50 Years of Research

By M. Dimatteo. Medical Care, 2004

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Family Practice, General Health Professions

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Interventions to enhance medication adherence in chronic medical conditions: a systematic review. (2007, background): “54); (2) NA‡ (1) % of INRs in target range (mean ± SD, 3 mo): I = 51.”
A Meta-Analysis (2009, positive): “Across many disease conditions, nonadherence to prevention and disease management activities (eg, medications, appointments, screening, exercise, and diet) averages 25% of patients; for some medical conditions and in some settings, adherence can be as poor as 50% or less.(9) The World Health Organiz”
Motivating Customers to Adhere to Expert Advice in Professional Services (2015, background): “…appropriate because research indicates that patients are often reluctant to adhere to physicians’ expert advice regarding detrimental health behaviors, and nonadherence has a clear impact on both patient well-being and future need for health care resources (DiMatteo 2004; Gigerenzer et al. 2008).”
Is It Possible to Become Happier? (And If So, How?) (2007, background): “This may seem a truism, but it is an important issue to consider when researchers ask participants to do something for their own good, just as when physicians prescribe treatments to their patients (DiMatteo, 2004).”
The challenge of patient adherence (2005, background): “Currently, ongoing meta-analytic studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA, are beginning to identify a number of stable and consistent factors that affect patient adherence (DiMatteo 2004a, 2004c; DiMatteo et al 2000, 2002).”
Health Literacy and Adherence to Medical Treatment in Chronic and Acute Illness: A Meta-Analysis (2016, background): “Scale type, number of measures, and use of self-reports can moderate the adherence-outcome relationships [7].”
Social support and patient adherence to medical treatment: a meta-analysis. (2004, background): “Repeated crosschecking of references within the larger adherence meta-analysis project of which this study is a part suggests that the vast majority, if not all, of the articles meeting the criteria for inclusion were found (see also, DiMatteo, 2004; DiMatteo et al., 2000, 2002).”
Is Unbiased Financial Advice to Retail Investors Sufficient? Answers from a Large Field Study (2012, background): “Adherence increases with more circumscribed regimens, as well as education and income, but not as a function of demographic characteristics (such as gender or age) or the severity of illnesses (DiMatteo 2004).”
Self-Report Measures of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence: A Review with Recommendations for HIV Research and Clinical Management (2006, background): “Lack of information about the interviewer’s relationship to the participant and mode of interview administration (DiMatteo, 2004; Rudd et al., 1990), as well as the lack of any systematic manipulation of these two variables in the studies we reviewed, limits the extent to which we can comment on…”