| An Ecological Perspective on Medication Adherence. | |
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PMID: 22309989 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Adherence to a prescribed medication regimen is influenced not only by characteristics of the individual patient, but also by factors within the patient's environment, or so-called system level factors. Until now, however, health care system factors have received relatively little attention in explaining medication nonadherence. Ecological models might serve as a framework to help explain the influence of health care system factors on patient behavior (e.g., adherence). In an ecological model, different levels of factors influence patients' behavior, i.e. factors at the patient-level, micro- (provider and social support), meso- (health care organization), and macro (health policy) -levels. In order to understand medication adherence and implement interventions to improve medication adherence, factors at these different levels should be taking into consideration. This paper describes an ecological model compromised of the most important factors at the patient-, micro-, meso- and macro-levels. |
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Lut Berben; Fabienne Dobbels; Sandra Engberg; Martha N Hill; Sabina De Geest |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-2-6 |
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Title: Western journal of nursing research Volume: - ISSN: 1552-8456 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Feb |
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Created Date: 2012-2-7 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7905435 Medline TA: West J Nurs Res Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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University of Basel, Switzerland. |
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