Appropriately reporting results using the medication subscale of the summary of diabetes self-care activities measure: A comment on Dasappa et al. (2017)

Basu, Saurav

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“…The researcher should also state the recall period over which adherence was estimatedReport medication adherence through self-report methods for both continuous and categorical outcomes: Medication adherence outcomes evaluated from self-report measures which were originally continuous can be categorized or recoded into two (or more) categories such as adherent/nonadherent or good/medium/poor adherence. There have been instances when researchers only report the categorical outcomes for the single item summary of diabetes self-care activities measure (SDSCA) although it is the mean of the continuous outcome which explains the population medication adherence level [4748]Reporting of adherence in comorbid patients: Since comorbid patients are taking medications for multiple disease conditions, a combined assessment of medication adherence precludes the identification of the specific disease conditions for which nonadherence is present. Medicine pills for two different diseases prescribed to be taken at the same time are expected to correlate, but such assumptions can be misleading since the patient's perceived susceptibility to the disease and perceived barriers such as side effects may differ significantly between drugs for two different disease conditions.…”

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“…Report medication adherence through self-report methods for both continuous and categorical outcomes: Medication adherence outcomes evaluated from self-report measures which were originally continuous can be categorized or recoded into two (or more) categories such as adherent/nonadherent or good/medium/poor adherence. There have been instances when researchers only report the categorical outcomes for the single item summary of diabetes self-care activities measure (SDSCA) although it is the mean of the continuous outcome which explains the population medication adherence level [4748]…”

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Improving the assessment of medication adherence: Challenges and considerations with a focus on low-resource settings

Basu¹,

Garg²,

Sharma³

et al. 2019

Tzu Chi Med J

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Improving patient survival and quality of life in chronic diseases requires prolonged and often lifelong medication intake. Less than half of patients with chronic diseases globally are adherent to their prescribed medications which preclude the full benefit of treatment, worsens therapeutic outcomes, accelerates disease progression, and causes enormous economic losses. The accurate assessment of medication adherence is pivotal for both researchers and clinicians. Medication adherence can be assessed through both direct and indirect measures. Indirect measures include both subjective (self-report measures such as questionnaire and interview) and objective (pill count and secondary database analysis) measures and constitute the mainstay of assessing medication adherence. However, the lack of an inexpensive, ubiquitous, universal gold standard for assessment of medication adherence emphasizes the need to utilize a combination of measures to differentiate adherent and nonadherent patients. The global heterogeneity in health systems precludes the development of a universal guideline for evaluating medication adherence. Methods based on the secondary database analysis are mostly ineffectual in low-resource settings lacking electronic pharmacy and insurance databases and allowing refills without updated, valid prescriptions from private pharmacies. This significantly restricts the choices for assessing adherence until digitization of medical data takes root in much of the developing world. Nevertheless, there is ample scope for improving self-report measures of adherence. Effective interview techniques, especially accounting for suboptimal patient health literacy, validation of adherence questionnaires, and avoiding conceptual fallacies in reporting adherence can improve the assessment of medication adherence and promote understanding of its causal factors.

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confidence: 99%

Improving the assessment of medication adherence: Challenges and considerations with a focus on low-resource settings

Basu¹,

Garg²,

Sharma³

et al. 2019

Tzu Chi Med J

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Appropriately reporting results using the medication subscale of the summary of diabetes self-care activities measure: A comment on Dasappa et al. (2017)

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Improving the assessment of medication adherence: Challenges and considerations with a focus on low-resource settings

Improving the assessment of medication adherence: Challenges and considerations with a focus on low-resource settings

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