Education makes people take their medication: myth or maxim?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Health Information Technology Supporting Adherence Memory Disorder Patients: A Systematic Literature Review.Applied clinical informatics · 2024
   Pooled it
2. Psychometric evaluation of the Adelphi Adherence Questionnaire (ADAQ©) in a type 2 diabetes mellitus population as a new measure of adherence and the complex factors influencing adherence in routine care.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2025
   Article
3. The Impact of Education Sources on Patient Compliance with the Recommended Oral Nutritional Supplement (ONS) Intake: A Qualitative Survey.Nutrients · 2025
   Article
4. Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults Living with HIV Attending Antiretroviral Clinics versus Traditional Healers' Offices in Bukavu City, Democratic Republic of the Congo.HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024
   Article
5. Using the Behaviour Change Wheel and modified Delphi method to identify behavioural change techniques for improving adherence to smoking cessation medications.BMC public health · 2023
   Article
6. Utilizing Social Determinants of Health Model to Understand Barriers to Medication Adherence in Patients with Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review.Patient preference and adherence · 2023
   Review

Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
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  Treating acute severe asthma attacks in children: using aminophylline.2020
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  Macrolides (alone or in combination) should be used as first-line empirical therapy of community-acquired pneumonia in children: myth or maxim?2021
• Commented on by
  Palivizumab immunoprophylaxis for infants with BPD has medium- and long-term benefits: myth or maxim?2021

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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