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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2022
Exploring the Agreement Between Self-Reported Medication Adherence and Pharmacy Refill-Based Measures in Patients with Kidney Disease.
To assess the quantitative and categorical agreement between two methods of measuring medication adherence: pharmacy refill-based medication possession rates and self-reported medication adherence scale. ⋯ There is modest agreement between pharmacy refill-based measures and self-report MMAS measures when assessed categorically or quantitatively. Assessing adherence as a continuous variable should be considered to overcome the challenges associated with categorization of adherence based on arbitrary thresholds.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2022
Acceptability of Community Saliva Testing in Controlling the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from Two Case Studies in Nursing Homes and Schools.
Current public health debate centers on COVID-19 testing methods and strategies. In some communities, high transmission risk may justify routine testing, and this requires test methods that are safe and efficient for both patients and the administrative or health-care workers administering them. Saliva testing appears to satisfy those criteria. ⋯ Administrators at the facilities in question seemed to think highly of saliva testing and wished to continue it after the pilot study was over. This result reinforces the criteria (the noninvasive aspect, in particular) supporting a key role for saliva testing in monitoring community spread of the virus. Nevertheless, wider-scale deployment of this particular method will only be possible if the testing strategy as a whole takes a health promotion approach.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2022
Development and Pilot-Testing of a Patient Decision-Making Aid for Nutrition in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.
We described the development and pilot-testing of an application based patient decision-making aid (PDA) for nutrition in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Alpha-testing and beta-testing were performed to explore the PDA's usability, acceptability, and comprehensibility in the design stage and in "real-life" conditions. ⋯ Our study showed that the nutrition PDA was an acceptable and suitable instrument for AMD patients and fit the values of all its stakeholders. This study is an important step in supporting shared decision-making, which has the potential to provide a more patient-centered and value-based nutrition health system for individuals with different types of AMD.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2022
Relationship Between Family Caregiver Burden and Medication Adherence in Patients with Mechanical Valve Replacement: A Structural Equation Model.
Oral anticoagulant is a necessary long-term treatment after mechanical valve replacement (MVR), and medication adherence has a great impact on patients with MVR. Although family caregiver burden is negatively correlated with medication adherence, little is known about the underlying mechanism. ⋯ The mediating effect of post-traumatic growth between family caregiver burden and medication adherence existed in patients with MVR. Interventions considering post-traumatic growth may be useful to increase medication adherence and improve patient rehabilitation.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2022
Adaptation and Validation of the Spanish Version of Decisional Conflict Scale in People with Migraine in Spain.
We aimed to validate the Spanish version of the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS) and analyze its psychometric properties in people with migraine. ⋯ The Spanish version (Spain) of the DCS has very acceptable psychometric properties (reliability and construct validity) and good potential for assessing decisional conflicts among migraine patients.