Promoting Treatment Adherence provides health care providers with a comprehensive set of information and strategies for understanding and promoting treatment adherence across a wide range of treatment types and clinical populations. The information is presented in a practical how-to manner, and is intended as a resource that practitioners can draw from to improve skills in promoting treatment adherence. 

An Ecological Approach to Adherence in Diabetes Management: Perspectives from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative

An Ecological Approach to Adherence in Diabetes Management: Perspectives from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative

An ecological approach to adherence in diabetes management: Perspectives from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation diabetes initiative
Edwin B.FisherCarol A.BrownsonMary L.O'TooleVictoriaAnwuriGowriShettyRichard R.Rubin

Complexity of management regimen has long been recognized as a challenge to adherence and self-management (Dailey, Kim, & Lian, 2001; Donnan, MacDonald, & Morris, 2002; Melikian, White, Vanderplas, Dezeii, & Chang, 2002). However, a dimension of the complexity of diabetes management that has received somewhat less attention is its extension throughout the settings of daily life—family, neighborhoods, workplaces, and communities. This chapter reviews previous research on adherence in diabetes, frames that within an ecological approach to self-management developed through the Diabetes Initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson ...

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