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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2016
Time to lack of persistence with pharmacological treatment among patients with current depressive episodes: a natural study with 1-year follow-up.
Medication nonadherence remains a big challenge for depressive patients. This study aims to assess and compare the medication persistence between unipolar depression (UD) and bipolar depression (BD). ⋯ Treatment discontinuation was frequently seen in patients with UD or BD, especially in the first 3 months of treatment. In spite of the similar pattern of medication persistence, UD and BD differ from each other in predictors of premature drop out.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2016
Factors influencing the quality of life perception in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
To evaluate the impact of several factors on the patient's perception on quality of life in a group of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). ⋯ To improve the patient's quality of life, special care should be given to the modifiable diabetes-related factors: the prevention and treatment of diabetes complications, treatment of depression, and weight loss in obese and overweight patients.
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Little is known about the functional health literacy (FHL) associated with medication adherence in elderly patients. The aim of this study was to examine the FHL among older adults and identify influencing factors that can predict medication adherence. ⋯ In this study, we found medication adherence of elderly patients was associated with education level, health-related problems, dosing frequency, satisfaction with patient counseling, and explanation of medication, but no association was found with FHL. Pharmacists should consider elderly patients' individual characteristics such as educational background and specific patient-related health problems, provide sufficient information and explanation of medication, and ensure patient satisfaction with the counseling.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2016
Retraction Of PublicationImpacts of fixed orthodontic appliance and clear-aligner on daily performance in adult patients with moderate need for treatment [Retraction].
[This retracts the article on p. 1639 in vol. 10, PMID: 27616881.].
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2016
Typology of end-of-life priorities in Saudi females: averaging analysis and Q-methodology.
Understanding culture-and sex-related end-of-life preferences is essential to provide quality end-of-life care. We have previously explored end-of-life choices in Saudi males and found important culture-related differences and that Q-methodology is useful in identifying intraculture, opinion-based groups. Here, we explore Saudi females' end-of-life choices. ⋯ Consistent with the previously reported findings in Saudi males, transcendence and dying in the hospital were the extreme end-of-life priority and dis-priority, respectively, in Saudi females. Body modesty was a major overall concern; however, concerns about pain, various types of privacy, and life quantity were variably emphasized by the five opinion-based groups but masked by averaging analysis.