Trial reportAnnals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology2013
Asthma medication adherence: the role of God and other health locus of control factors.
Trial report in Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00459368 (Adherence Feedback for Improving Respiratory Medication Use), which is not on this map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Adherence Feedback for Improving Respiratory Medication Use
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to improve adherence to inhaled steroids for asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Pooled it
- God Knows Best: Exploring the God Locus of Health Control, Race-Ethnicity, and Risk-Taking and Protective Behaviors Interrelationship in the USA.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- The Effect of Religious Coping Levels on Asthma Control in Asthmatic Adults in Türkiye.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Racial disparities in prostate cancer in the UK and the USA: similarities, differences and steps forwards.Nature reviews. Urology · 2025Review
- Exploring Biologic Treatment Hesitancy Among Black and Indigenous Populations in Canada: a Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Review
- Religiosity and the Naturalness Bias in Drug and Vaccine Choices.Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- Medication Adherence in People with Asthma: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Patient and Health Professional Perspectives.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2023Review
- Effectiveness of educational intervention-based compassion therapy on emotional regulation and self-control after discharge of patients With COVID-19.Journal of education and health promotion · 2022Article
- Health Facts Medication Adherence in Transplantation (H-MAT) Study: A Secondary Analysis of Determinants and Outcomes of Medication Nonadherence in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients.International journal of nephrology · 2022Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scales in English- and Spanish-speaking Hispanic Americans.Journal of health psychology · 2021Article
- Moral disengagement, locus of control, and belief in a just world: Individual differences relate to adherence to COVID-19 guidelines.Personality and individual differences · 2021Article
- The association of illness perceptions and God locus of health control with self-care behaviours in patients with type 2 diabetes in Saudi Arabia.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2020Article
- Perceptions of childhood asthma and its control among Malays in Malaysia: a qualitative study.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2020Article
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- Illness Perceptions, HbA1c, And Adherence In Type 2 Diabetes In Saudi Arabia.Patient preference and adherence · 2019Article
- Influence of Religious and Spiritual Elements on Adherence to Pharmacological Treatment.Journal of religion and health · 2018Review
- Young Muslim Women Living with Asthma in Denmark: A Link between Religion and Self-Efficacy.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- A path analysis model suggesting the association between health locus of control and compliance with childhood vaccinations.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2018Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the God Locus of Health Control (GLHC): A Study on Muslim Pilgrims.Journal of religion and health · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundMedication adherence is an important determinant of disease outcomes, yet medication use on average tends to be low among patients with chronic conditions, including asthma. Although several predictors of non-adherence have been assessed, more research is needed on patients' beliefs about God and how these relate to medication use.
objectiveTo examine the relationship between perceptions about "God's" role in health and other locus of control factors with inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) adherence among asthma patients.
methodsParticipants were from a clinical trial to improve ICS adherence and were 5-56 years old, had a diagnosis of asthma, and were receiving ICS medication. Baseline adherence was estimated from electronic prescription and pharmacy fill records. Patients were considered to be adherent if ICS use was ≥80% of prescribed. A baseline survey with the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scale was used to assess five sources (God, doctors, other people, chance, and internal).
resultsMedication adherence was low (36%). Patients' who had a stronger belief that God determined asthma control were less likely to be adherent (odds ratio [OR] 0.82, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.70-0.96). This relationship was stronger among African American (OR 0.68, 95% CI0.47-0.99) compared to white patients (OR 0.89, 95% CI 0.75-1.04), and among adults (OR 0.81, 95% CI 0.69-0.96) compared to children (OR 0.84, 95% CI 0.58-1.22).
conclusionPatients' belief in God's control of health appears to be a factor in asthma controller use, and therefore should be considered in physician-patient discussions concerning course of treatment.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00459368.
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