Adherance to Treatment in Medical Conditions

ISBN-13: 9789057022654 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998

Myers

Opis

Poor adherence or compliance to treatment has major medical, psychological and economic consequences. This monographs covers the role of doctor-patient communications; memory; adherence in specific groups, such as children and the elderly; and adherence to different treatments.

Recenzje

"The editors and the various authors do an excellent job of organizing the vast and complicated adherence literature that now weighs down library shelves around the world. For researchers and students of health psychology who are new to the field of adherence, this book is a good starting place."

Spis treści

Predicting treatment adherenece - an overview of theoretical models, Robert Horne and John Weinman; health promotion - empowering choice, Keith Jones; adherence in ethnic groups, Mary Sissons-Joshi; adherence to lipid-lowering dietary advice, Kathryn Nicholson Perry, Lorna Rapoport and Jane Wardle; adherence to physiotherapy, Emmy Sluijs; adherence in hypertension and coronary heart disease, Yori Gidron; adherence issues on methadone treatment for opiate dependence, James Elander.

O autorze

Lynn Myers and Kenny Midence