Patient Adherence to Medical Treatment Regimens : Bridging the Gap Between Behavioral Science and Biomedicine

by Alan J. Christensen

• ISBN13: 9780300103496
• ISBN10: 0300103492
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-07-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

The single most important public health problem facing physicians today may be the failure of patients to follow their prescribed treatment regimens, a phenomenon that results in treatment failures, increased morbidity and mortality, and enormous burdens to society and the economy. This book focuses on the many factors that influence adherence behavior and discusses how this behavior can be improved. Drawing on data from social, personality, clinical, and health psychology, a leading authority on the subject examines the psychosocial, demographic, contextual, and provider determinants of patient compliance with physician recommendations and stresses their multiplicative influence. Alan J. Christensen presents several theories to account for this behavior and then offers his own new interactional framework, one that applies broader fundamental theorizing about psychological and behavior change to the problem and thereby sheds new light on efforts to promote adherence.

Author Biography

Alan J. Christensen is professor and director of clinical training in the department of psychology and professor in the department of internal medicine at The University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Alan E. Kazdin	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiv
CHAPTER 1 The Challenge of Patient Adherence: Implications and Assessment	1	(19)
CHAPTER 2 The Role of Behavioral Science Theory in Patient Adherence Research	20	(18)
CHAPTER 3 Determinants of Patient Adherence	38	(25)
CHAPTER 4 An Interactive Framework for Adherence Research and Practice	63	(18)
CHAPTER 5 Facilitating Adherence Behavior I: Review of Techniques and Their Efficacy	81	(24)
CHAPTER 6 Facilitating Adherence Behavior II: Conceptual and Methodological Issues	105	(14)
CHAPTER 7 Bridging the Gap: Challenges for Behavioral Science and Biomedicine	119	(12)
References	131	(30)
Credits	161	(2)
Index	163