Management of adherence to pediatric medical regimens.

2001 ◽  
pp. 201-221
Author(s):  
Edward R. Christophersen ◽  
Susan L. Mortweet
Keyword(s):  
Medical Regimens

scholarly journals Communication Skills Training in the Medical Curriculum

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Branet Partric ◽  
Yasar Albushra Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Patient’S Satisfaction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Graduate Curricula ◽  
Medical Regimens

Communication is an essential skill in the armory of any worker in the health field. It is an integral part of the skills required, not only in medical doctors, but in all health workers. Communication is more than history taking; it includes all methods of interaction with patients, patient's relatives, members of the health care team, and the public. Many studies stressed that the main complaints of patients are related to communication problems and not to clinical competency. This has contributed to an increase in the number of law suits, non-adherence to medical regimens, and the tendency of patients to keep changing physicians and hospitals. Also, it has been shown that health outcome is positively affected by proper communication. This includes patient's satisfaction and cooperation, decrease in treatment duration, decrease in painkillers requirements, and decrease in hospital stay. Also, it has been shown that communication skills can be taught and important changes in physician's behavior and in their communication skills have been demonstrated after courses of communication skills. Thus, many medical colleges in the world are including communication skills courses in their undergraduate and graduate curricula.

Predicting mothers' compliance with pediatric medical regimens

1972 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 843-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall H. Becker ◽  
Robert H. Drachman ◽  
John P. Kirscht
Keyword(s):  
Medical Regimens

An Adapted Model of Cost-Related Nonadherence to Medications Among People With Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shikha Gupta ◽  
Mary Ann McColl ◽  
Sara J. T. Guilcher ◽  
Karen Smith
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Medication Cost ◽  
Prescription Medications ◽  
Physician Services ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Advance Research ◽  
Medical Regimens ◽  
Health Complications ◽  
Care Costs

Despite emerging evidence on cost-related nonadherence (CRNA) to prescription medications, there is little conceptualization and exploration of this phenomenon with respect to disability. Specifically, there is a gap in the literature that explores factors influencing medication cost–adherence relationship among individuals living with a disability. To advance research on and policy for CRNA to medications among people with disabilities, we need a framework that can contribute towards guiding solutions to this problem. We examined the applicability of Piette and colleagues’ existing model for CRNA to the context of people with disabilities and suggested an adapted model (CRNA to medications for persons with disability [CRNA-d]) that can provide a more specific conceptualization of CRNA with respect to disability. The adapted CRNA-d model depicts that CRNA to prescription medications with respect to disability is a dynamic and multifaceted phenomenon, determined by various socioeconomic, disability-related, medication-related, prescriber-related, and system-related factors. We discuss how higher susceptibility to health complications, barriers to income and employment, additional health care costs, the complexity of medical regimens, limited access to physician services, and other policy-related factors increase the risk of persons with disabilities to face cost-related barriers to fulfill their necessary medications.

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