ArticleNeurology research international2020
Medication Beliefs and Adherence to Antiseizure Medications.
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- The Effect of Medication Beliefs on Medication Adherence in Patients After TKA: A Moderated Mediation Model.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluation of diabetes mellitus medication-taking behavior among first- and second-generation Australians of Chinese heritage: A nationwide cross-sectional study.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2025Article
- Multicentric study of adherence to antiseizure medications among adults with epilepsy attended in neurology departments in Burkina Faso.Epilepsia open · 2025Article
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- [The importance of adherence to treatment in control of epilepsy].Revista de neurologia · 2024Article
- Adherence to anti-seizure medications in the Swedish Prospective Regional Epilepsy Database and Biobank for Individualized Clinical Treatment (PREDICT).Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2023Article
- Detecting Reasons for Nonadherence to Medication in Adults with Epilepsy: A Review of Self-Report Measures and Key Predictors.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
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Abstract
introductionThe primary objective of our study was to determine the nature of medication beliefs and their association with adherence to antiseizure medications (ASMs) among elderly epilepsy patients. Our secondary objective was to enhance the psychometric properties and factor structure parameters of the Beliefs about Medications Questionnaire (BMQ) adapted to epilepsy and affected aged subjects.
methodsA population-based survey was performed in which older adults (≥60 years of age) were invited for a free face-to-face consultation with the specialists as well as for the collection of necessary data. The eligible subjects were those who are affected with epilepsy and having epileptic seizures of any type. In addition, the participants were required to be of any sex, currently under treatment with ASMs, resident of Tehran, and able and interested to participate independently. All were carefully examined with a reasonably detailed case-history examination. Two Persian questionnaires used were Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS) and BMQ. Those with a MARS score of ≥6 were considered as adherent to ASMs. All data were described in descriptive terms. We did a group comparison of means and proportions for all possible independent variables between adherents and nonadherents. Then, we did a hierarchical multiple linear regression. For this, independent variables were categorized into three different blocks: (a) sociodemographic block (Block-1), (b) treatment side-effect block (Block-2), and (c) BMQ block that included ten items of the BMQ scale (Block-3). We also did a forward step-wise linear regression by beginning with an empty model. We also estimated the psychometric properties and factor structure parameters of BMQ and its two subdomains.
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conclusionsOurs is one of the very few studies that evaluated medication beliefs and their association with adherence to ASMs among elderly epilepsy patients in a non-western context. In our context, medication beliefs are likely to have an independent role in effecting adherence to ASMs, particularly the concern that "ASMs disrupt life." Treating physicians should cultivate good conscience about ASMs and evaluate the patient's medication beliefs early-on to identify those who might be at the risk of becoming nonadherent.
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