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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
Self-Report for Measuring and Predicting Medication Adherence: Experts' Experience in Predicting Adherence in Stable Psychiatric Outpatients and in Pharmacokinetics.
Poor adherence to appropriately prescribed medication is a global challenge for psychiatrists. ⋯ Future studies to predict adherence should include the inpatient setting and explore insight. Studying the pharmacokinetics associated with non-adherence in each psychiatric drug is a major challenge. Medication adherence is a complex and dynamic process changing over time in the same patient. Personalizing adherence using psychological or pharmacological variables are in their initial stages.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
Trivial or Troublesome: Experience with Coronary Heart Disease Medication from the Patient's Perspective.
Living with coronary heart disease (CHD) usually means being prescribed several medications to help prevent new cardiac events. Using medicines for long-term conditions impacts on day-to-day life, and coping with medicines can be burdensome and can affect the quality of life. To enable better support of these patients, we need to understand their collective medicine-related experience. ⋯ Patients' medicine-related experiences after CHD vary greatly. The findings of this study highlight a need for more individualized support for patients using medicines for secondary prevention. The patients often needed better dialogue with healthcare providers to optimally manage their medicines. Medicine-related support for these patients should encompass various aspects of medicine-taking.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
Modeling Lay People's Ethical Attitudes to Organ Donation: A Q-Methodology Study.
Organ donation is commonly evaluated by biomedical ethicists based largely on principlism with autonomy at the top of the "moral mountain." Lay people may differ in the way they invoke and balance the various ethical interests. We explored lay people's ethical attitudes to organ donation. ⋯ 1) On average, recipient benefit, requirement of both explicit donor consent and family approval, donor-recipient relationship, and motives were predominant considerations; 2) ranking of some statements was associated with respondents' demographics; 3) Q-methodology identified various ethical resolution models that were partially masked by averaging-analysis; and 4) strong virtue and familism approaches in our respondents provide some empirical evidence against principlism adequacy.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
Myeloma Patient Value Mapping: A Discrete Choice Experiment on Myeloma Treatment Preferences in the UK.
Myeloma is an incurable life-threatening hematological cancer. Recent treatment developments have seen improvements in survival; however, while patients are living longer, they are living with symptoms and treatment side effects. ⋯ Different treatment features were not valued equally among all myeloma patients. This has important implications for healthcare policy decisions and could be used to guide decisions around the value of new myeloma medicines.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
The Healthy Kids Initiative: Results from the First 2000 Participants.
The comprehensive and free Healthy Kids Initiative (HKI) was developed with key features including social support, family support, and cognitive behavior education in order to promote program completion and improve health outcomes among youth. The first objective was to determine program completion rates and independent risk indicators for non-completion. The second objective was to determine the 12-week impact of the Healthy Kids Initiative on aerobic fitness, depressed mood and health-related quality of life. ⋯ The HKI program had high completion rates and early success in improving outcomes. Knowing the independent risk indicators for non-completion will allow for program revision to help at-risk participants complete the program.