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Patient Treatment Adherence pdf

Patient Treatment Adherence



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Edition: 1
Publisher: Psychology Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0805848339



Patient Treatment Adherence: Concepts, Interventions, and Measurement


This new book summarizes the adherence literature for a number of specific health behaviors and populations. Medical books Patient Treatment Adherence. It provides a comprehensive source on the conceptualization, interventions, and measurement of treatment adherence and a synthesis of the research across demographic and chronic diseases. The text presents problems associated with treatment adherence; theoretical models that have commonly been used to understand, predict, and/or improve adherence; adherence with specific behaviors including exercise, diet, rehabilitation, medication, and psychological therapies; and strategies in enhancing adherence.

Because chronic diseases involve similar behaviors, the handbook is organized by specific behaviors and special populations, and not by disease. Every chapter is sub-organized by specific diseases to ensure easy access for the readers and features a discussion of adherence across demographic and chronic conditions, a review of previous interventions directed at the particular behavior or population, questions and scoring algorithms for widely used measures of treatment adherence, a discussion of the clinical research, and where appropriate, policy implications Medical books Patient Treatment Adherence Concepts, Interventions, and Measurement. Categories: Patient compliance. Contributors: Hayden B. Bosworth - Editor. Format: Hardcover

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Categories: Patient compliance. Contributors: Hayden B. Bosworth - Editor. Format: Hardcover

Categories: Patient compliance. Contributors: Hayden B. Bosworth - Editor. Format: Hardcover

This new book provides a comprehensive source on the conceptualization, interventions, and measurement of treatment adherence and on the research across demographic and chronic diseases. The text presents

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It provides a comprehensive source on the conceptualization, interventions, and measurement of treatment adherence and a synthesis of the research across demographic and chronic diseases. The text presents problems associated with treatment adherence; theoretical models that have commonly been used to understand, predict, and/or improve adherence; adherence with specific behaviors including exercise, diet, rehabilitation, medication, and psychological therapies; and strategies in enhancing adherence.

Because chronic diseases involve similar behaviors, the handbook is organized by specific behaviors and special populations, and not by disease. Every chapter is sub-organized by specific diseases to ensure easy access for the readers and features a discussion of adherence across demographic and chronic conditions, a review of previous interventions directed at the particular behavior or population, questions and scoring algorithms for widely used measures of treatment adherence, a discussion of the clinical research, and where appropriate, policy implications. Patient Treatment Adherence addresses: practical recommendations to improve adherence; the impact of non-adherence including costs and health-related quality of life; methodological issues such as assessing cost-effectiveness; and the use of technological advances to improve adherence.

Intended for health service professionals, health, clinical, social, and cognitive psychologists, primary care physicians, pharmacists, and policy-makers, this text is also an excellent resource for graduate courses on health psychology and public health.

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