Table 5.
Higher Adherence | Lower Adherence |
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Intervention Content | |
Behaviorally focused interventions (e.g., prompts, behavioral goal setting or contracts, rewards) | Cognitive focused interventions to change knowledge, beliefs, or attitudes |
Habit-based interventions (e.g., link medication taking with existing habits) | |
Standardized interventions | Individualized interventions |
Intervention Delivery | |
Pharmacist interventionists | |
Intervention delivered directly to patients | Interventions delivered to health care providers with the intent that they will affect patient adherence |
Face-to-face interventions | Surface-mail interventions |
Interventions delivered in patients’ homes | |
Computer-based interventions | |
Intervention Recipients | |
Younger patients | Older patients |
Homeless patients | |
Research Methods | |
Pill count adherence measurements | Self-report adherence measurements |
Masked data collectors | |
Intention to treat analyses |
Statistically significant moderators of medication adherence effect sizes.