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Treatment adherence and illness self-management: introduction to the special issue
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Treatment adherence and illness self-management: introduction to the special issue

M. Bryant Howren and Jeffrey S. Gonzalez
Journal of behavioral medicine, Vol.39(6), pp.931-934
12/01/2016
DOI: 10.1007/s10865-016-9804-0
PMID: 27766482
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Abstract

The current issue is devoted broadly to research on treatment adherence and chronic illness self-management behavior. As the prevalence of chronic illness increases, the pervasive problem of treatment nonadherence is increasingly viewed as having a major impact on treatment outcomes, public health and healthcare costs, making this issue particularly timely. Sixteen articles spanning an array of topics are presented; articles include empirical studies, statistical simulations, systematic reviews, and theoretical commentaries. Studies conducted with diverse patient populations (e.g., chronic headache, diabetes, end-stage renal disease, HIV, hypertension, severe obesity), samples (e.g., adolescents, ethnic/racial minorities, low-income adults, parents, spousal dyads), and designs (e.g., cross-sectional, longitudinal assessment, randomized controlled trial), are represented. This issue highlights psychosocial factors associated with nonadherence, promising interventions to promote adherence, and state-of-the art methods for the study of illness self-management. We hope these articles engender even more high quality, methodologically rigorous research in this important subfield of behavioral medicine.
 Psychology Psychology, Clinical Social Sciences

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