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Can Treatment Adherence Be Improved by Using Rubin's Four Tendencies Framework to Understand a Patient's Response to Expectations.

Jeremy Kirk, Anita MacDonald, Paul Lavender, Jessica Dean, Gretchen Rubin

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5 authors.

Jeremy KirkDepartment of Endocrinology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
Anita MacDonaldDepartment of Dietetics, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
Paul LavenderS. Karger Publishers, Basel, Switzerland.
Jessica DeanDepartment of Clinical Health Psychology, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, UK.
Gretchen RubinIndependent researcher and author, New York, NY, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Within the context of poorer patient outcomes and rising healthcare costs, we need to better understand why many patients do not engage fully with their treatment plan. Movement away from talking about "compliance" towards "adherence" and "concordance" is evidence of a recognition that this is a two-way process. Whilst healthcare professionals expect patients to engage in treatment, equally, patients have expectations (whether positive or negative) of their treatment and their need for engagement. There is a need for an effective method that can specifically target those interventions that will provide the most benefit to individual patients and which, crucially, is easy and inexpensive to administer in everyday practice and widely applicable. Rubin's Four Tendencies model identifies a patient's "response to outer and inner expectations" as a key factor in adherence. The model therefore provides an opportunity to test such a targeted, patient-specific strategy and we present a call to action for research in this area.

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ComplianceInterventionMedicationRubin's Four TendenciesTreatment adherence

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PMID31988954
PMCPMC6945907

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