Long-term treatment acceptance: what is it, and how can it be assessed?

Background: Understanding the link between patients' beliefs and behavior may help explain their attitude to their treatment. How patients' personal experience of their treatment results in their decision to accept taking it or not and to persist in taking it remains to be explored more thoroughly. Acceptance is hypothesized to be the balance patients establish between their medication's advantages and its disadvantages, based on their personal experience with the medication.

Assessing patients' satisfaction with anti-TNFα treatment in Crohn's disease: qualitative steps of the development of a new questionnaire.

Purpose: To develop a self-administered questionnaire assessing patients' satisfaction with treatments in Crohn's disease for use in clinical research and epidemiological studies.

Patients And Methods: Semi-directive interviews (16) were conducted with patients with severe Crohn's disease treated with anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (anti-TNFα). Transcripts were analyzed and concepts related to satisfaction with treatment were extracted and organized into a model.