THE MEANING OF MEDICATIONS - ANOTHER LOOK AT COMPLIANCE
THE MEANING OF MEDICATIONS - ANOTHER LOOK AT COMPLIANCE
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DOI:
10.1016/0277-9536(85)90308-9
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
CONRAD, P
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作者:
CONRAD, P
Most research on compliance with medical regimens takes a doctor-centered perspecitve and proceeds from certain assumptions. This paper presents an alternative, patient-centered approach to managing medications, using data from 80 in-depth interviews of people with epilepsy. This approach focuses on the meanings of medication in people''s everyday lives and looks at why people take their medications as well as why they do not. From a patient''s perspective the issue is more one of self-regulaton than compliance. When noncompliance beyond difficulties with side effects and drug efficacy is examined the meanings of self-regulation include testing, controlling dependence, destigmatization and creating a practical practice. What appears to be noncompliance from a medical perspective may actually be a form of asserting control over one''s disorder.