Assessing medication-related burden of community-dwelling individuals with chronic conditions in a small island state
CONCLUSION: Medication-related burden is complex and multi-faceted as demonstrated by the findings of this study. Healthcare professionals should seek to identify and address factors causing this burden to improve patient outcomes.PMID:37801519 | DOI:10.1177/17423953231205918 (Source: Chronic Illness)
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Katya Sacco Lorna M Bonnici West Lauren M Grech Janet Krska Maria Cordina Source Type: research

Chronic illness adjustment scale (CIAS): Development and validation
The objectives of this study were to (i) develop a self-report instrument to measure adjustment to chronic illness, (ii) evaluate its core structure and (iii) study various psychometric properties in the development of this instrument.METHOD: The entire process of developing and validating the instrument is conducted in different phases: item writing and content validation; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to extract dimensions of the instrument; reliability and validity testing. A total of 1095 participants were included in the study. The EFA was run using IBM SPSS 23 and CFA was do...
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Meera Padhy Meena Hariharan Prachi Pandey Riswana Maryam Varsha Anand Source Type: research

Assessing medication-related burden of community-dwelling individuals with chronic conditions in a small island state
CONCLUSION: Medication-related burden is complex and multi-faceted as demonstrated by the findings of this study. Healthcare professionals should seek to identify and address factors causing this burden to improve patient outcomes.PMID:37801519 | DOI:10.1177/17423953231205918 (Source: Chronic Illness)
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Katya Sacco Lorna M Bonnici West Lauren M Grech Janet Krska Maria Cordina Source Type: research

Chronic illness adjustment scale (CIAS): Development and validation
The objectives of this study were to (i) develop a self-report instrument to measure adjustment to chronic illness, (ii) evaluate its core structure and (iii) study various psychometric properties in the development of this instrument.METHOD: The entire process of developing and validating the instrument is conducted in different phases: item writing and content validation; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to extract dimensions of the instrument; reliability and validity testing. A total of 1095 participants were included in the study. The EFA was run using IBM SPSS 23 and CFA was do...
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Meera Padhy Meena Hariharan Prachi Pandey Riswana Maryam Varsha Anand Source Type: research

Assessing medication-related burden of community-dwelling individuals with chronic conditions in a small island state
CONCLUSION: Medication-related burden is complex and multi-faceted as demonstrated by the findings of this study. Healthcare professionals should seek to identify and address factors causing this burden to improve patient outcomes.PMID:37801519 | DOI:10.1177/17423953231205918 (Source: Chronic Illness)
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Katya Sacco Lorna M Bonnici West Lauren M Grech Janet Krska Maria Cordina Source Type: research

Chronic illness adjustment scale (CIAS): Development and validation
The objectives of this study were to (i) develop a self-report instrument to measure adjustment to chronic illness, (ii) evaluate its core structure and (iii) study various psychometric properties in the development of this instrument.METHOD: The entire process of developing and validating the instrument is conducted in different phases: item writing and content validation; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to extract dimensions of the instrument; reliability and validity testing. A total of 1095 participants were included in the study. The EFA was run using IBM SPSS 23 and CFA was do...
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Meera Padhy Meena Hariharan Prachi Pandey Riswana Maryam Varsha Anand Source Type: research

Assessing medication-related burden of community-dwelling individuals with chronic conditions in a small island state
CONCLUSION: Medication-related burden is complex and multi-faceted as demonstrated by the findings of this study. Healthcare professionals should seek to identify and address factors causing this burden to improve patient outcomes.PMID:37801519 | DOI:10.1177/17423953231205918 (Source: Chronic Illness)
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Katya Sacco Lorna M Bonnici West Lauren M Grech Janet Krska Maria Cordina Source Type: research

Chronic illness adjustment scale (CIAS): Development and validation
The objectives of this study were to (i) develop a self-report instrument to measure adjustment to chronic illness, (ii) evaluate its core structure and (iii) study various psychometric properties in the development of this instrument.METHOD: The entire process of developing and validating the instrument is conducted in different phases: item writing and content validation; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to extract dimensions of the instrument; reliability and validity testing. A total of 1095 participants were included in the study. The EFA was run using IBM SPSS 23 and CFA was do...
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Meera Padhy Meena Hariharan Prachi Pandey Riswana Maryam Varsha Anand Source Type: research

Assessing medication-related burden of community-dwelling individuals with chronic conditions in a small island state
CONCLUSION: Medication-related burden is complex and multi-faceted as demonstrated by the findings of this study. Healthcare professionals should seek to identify and address factors causing this burden to improve patient outcomes.PMID:37801519 | DOI:10.1177/17423953231205918 (Source: Chronic Illness)
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Katya Sacco Lorna M Bonnici West Lauren M Grech Janet Krska Maria Cordina Source Type: research

Chronic illness adjustment scale (CIAS): Development and validation
The objectives of this study were to (i) develop a self-report instrument to measure adjustment to chronic illness, (ii) evaluate its core structure and (iii) study various psychometric properties in the development of this instrument.METHOD: The entire process of developing and validating the instrument is conducted in different phases: item writing and content validation; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to extract dimensions of the instrument; reliability and validity testing. A total of 1095 participants were included in the study. The EFA was run using IBM SPSS 23 and CFA was do...
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Meera Padhy Meena Hariharan Prachi Pandey Riswana Maryam Varsha Anand Source Type: research

Assessing medication-related burden of community-dwelling individuals with chronic conditions in a small island state
CONCLUSION: Medication-related burden is complex and multi-faceted as demonstrated by the findings of this study. Healthcare professionals should seek to identify and address factors causing this burden to improve patient outcomes.PMID:37801519 | DOI:10.1177/17423953231205918 (Source: Chronic Illness)
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Katya Sacco Lorna M Bonnici West Lauren M Grech Janet Krska Maria Cordina Source Type: research

Chronic illness adjustment scale (CIAS): Development and validation
The objectives of this study were to (i) develop a self-report instrument to measure adjustment to chronic illness, (ii) evaluate its core structure and (iii) study various psychometric properties in the development of this instrument.METHOD: The entire process of developing and validating the instrument is conducted in different phases: item writing and content validation; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to extract dimensions of the instrument; reliability and validity testing. A total of 1095 participants were included in the study. The EFA was run using IBM SPSS 23 and CFA was do...
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Meera Padhy Meena Hariharan Prachi Pandey Riswana Maryam Varsha Anand Source Type: research

Assessing medication-related burden of community-dwelling individuals with chronic conditions in a small island state
CONCLUSION: Medication-related burden is complex and multi-faceted as demonstrated by the findings of this study. Healthcare professionals should seek to identify and address factors causing this burden to improve patient outcomes.PMID:37801519 | DOI:10.1177/17423953231205918 (Source: Chronic Illness)
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Katya Sacco Lorna M Bonnici West Lauren M Grech Janet Krska Maria Cordina Source Type: research

Chronic illness adjustment scale (CIAS): Development and validation
The objectives of this study were to (i) develop a self-report instrument to measure adjustment to chronic illness, (ii) evaluate its core structure and (iii) study various psychometric properties in the development of this instrument.METHOD: The entire process of developing and validating the instrument is conducted in different phases: item writing and content validation; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to extract dimensions of the instrument; reliability and validity testing. A total of 1095 participants were included in the study. The EFA was run using IBM SPSS 23 and CFA was do...
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Meera Padhy Meena Hariharan Prachi Pandey Riswana Maryam Varsha Anand Source Type: research

Assessing medication-related burden of community-dwelling individuals with chronic conditions in a small island state
CONCLUSION: Medication-related burden is complex and multi-faceted as demonstrated by the findings of this study. Healthcare professionals should seek to identify and address factors causing this burden to improve patient outcomes.PMID:37801519 | DOI:10.1177/17423953231205918 (Source: Chronic Illness)
Source: Chronic Illness - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Katya Sacco Lorna M Bonnici West Lauren M Grech Janet Krska Maria Cordina Source Type: research