Effectiveness of a group-based intervention to change medication beliefs and improve medication adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A randomized controlled trial

Conclusion: This trial did not demonstrate superiority of our intervention over the control arm in changing beliefs about medication or in improving medication adherence over time.Practice implications: Absent intervention effects might have been due to, amongst others, selection bias and a suboptimal treatment integrity level. Hence, targeting beliefs about medication in clinical practice should not yet be ruled out.

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - January 2, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hanneke E. Zwikker, Cornelia H. van den Ende, Wim G. van Lankveld, Alfons A. den Broeder, Frank H. van den Hoogen, Birgit van de Mosselaar, Sandra van Dulmen, Bart J. van den Bemt Tags: Interventions Source Type: research