Evaluation of medication adherence and medication beliefs among patients with epilepsy

CONCLUSION: Patients with epilepsy reported low medication adherence and were found to have concerns about the harms and side effects of the medicines they were using; they had negative perceptions of the purpose of medicines; they had high beliefs about the harms of medicines; and they had low beliefs about their personal treatment needs. The patients were generally found to have negative beliefs about medicines, which negatively affected their medication adherence.PMID:34757264 | DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108366
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research