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Describe some psychological evidence about adherence.
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Gozde Zorlu A) Describe some psychological evidence about adherence Barat et al in 2001, conducted an investigation concerning patients adherence to medical requests made by their general practitioner, using 350 seventy year olds in Denmark. He measured adherence by compiling information from the individual's GP, interviewing the subjects and by checking their medicine cabinet. The information gathered from the GP and the information obtained from questioning the subjects and analysing the content of their medical cabinet was compared. Baret discovered that there was disagreement over the medicine in 22% of the cases, a disagreement regarding the doses required in 71% of the cases and a misunderstanding about the treatment programmes in 69% of the cases. Only 60% of the 350 subjects knew of the purpose of the drugs that they were taking, 21% were aware of the problems that would arise if they stopped taking the drugs prescribed to them, and only 6%...
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