‘A necessary evil’: associations with taking medication and their relationship with medication adherence

M. Kleppe; J.P.W. Lacroix; J.R.C. Ham; C.J.H. Midden

doi:10.1080/13548506.2017.1316412

‘A necessary evil’: associations with taking medication and their relationship with medication adherence

M. Kleppe, J.P.W. Lacroix, J.R.C. Ham, C.J.H. Midden

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Cognitive factors, like beliefs, have been studied extensively as determinants of medication adherence, while affect associated with taking medicines has been studied much less. In the present study (N = 525), we investigated affect by assessing patients’ first associations with taking their medicines. Results showed that these associations were related to self-reported medication adherence: Patients who associated taking medicines with negative affect were the least adherent, while those associating taking medicines with the need to take medicines were the most adherent. Our results support the idea that affect should be considered an important determinant of adherence.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1217-1223
Number of pages	7
Journal	Psychology, Health & Medicine
Volume	22
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2017.1316412
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2017

Keywords

Adolescent
Adult
Affect
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Association
Cardiovascular Diseases/drug therapy
Diabetes Mellitus/drug therapy
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Male
Medication Adherence/psychology
Middle Aged
Young Adult

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