Development and Validation of a Novel General Medication Adherence Scale (GMAS) for Chronic Illness Patients in Pakistan

Development and Validation of a Novel General Medication Adherence Scale (GMAS) for Chronic Illness Patients in Pakistan

Objective: This study aimed to develop and validate a self-reporting adherence tool termed as General Medication Adherence Scale (GMAS) in Urdu language for measuring adherence toward medication use among Pakistani patients with a chronic disease.Methods: A month-long study (December 2017) was condu...

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Main Authors: Atta Abbas Naqvi, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Mehwish Rizvi, Ale Zehra, Wajiha Iffat, Abdul Haseeb, Shazia Jamshed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Pharmacology
Subjects:
medication adherence
patient compliance
medication persistence
chronic illness
patients
Pakistan
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphar.2018.01124/full

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