Adherence: A Concept Analysis

Abstract

Healthcare providers should have an understanding of the concept of adherence in the context of patient care in order to guide patient self-care behaviors.

Medication adherence in patients after percutaneous coronary intervention due to acute myocardial infarction: From research to clinical implications

“…1). In contrast, persistence should be understood in the quantitative scope [13,14] and might be simply described as the duration of time from initiation to discontinuation of pharmacotherapy (Fig. 1).…”

Adherence to Recovery Exercise Program of Scapulohumeral Articulation After Breast Cancer Surgery

“…Poor adherence can lead to suboptimal effectiveness of treatment regimens, threats to patient safety, and increasing healthcare costs for disease management (Gardner, 2014).…”

Chronic Pain and Exercise: Studies on pain intensity, biochemistry, adherence and attitudes

“…The extent to which an individual adopt and follow a professional prescription or advice about treatment is in the literature described in terms of compliance, adherence or concordance [5,6]. Most research in this field has focused on medication prescription [7,8], even though the principle of properly conducting a treatment plan probably is important for optimizing improvement for other interventions as well, for example PA&E [7].…”

“…The terms compliance, adherence and concordance are sometimes used interchangeable, however differences between the concepts have been proposed [5,6]. Compliance refers to the extent which the patients' behaviour is in line with the prescribed recommendations, that is the professional dictates the conditions.…”

“…Thus, adherence describe the conduction of a treatment which has been discussed, agreed on and where the patients' standpoints has been taken into consideration. The term concordance highlight the negotiation and consensus between the professional and patient even more [5,6]. Adherence is suggested to be more preferable than compliance as adherence put more emphasises on the consent between the professional care-giver and the patient [6,9], and thus is more judgeless.…”