Implications for Training on Smartphone Medication Reminder App Use by Adults With Chronic Conditions: Pilot Study Applying the Technology Acceptance Model.

Background: The majority of middle-aged to older patients with chronic conditions report forgetting to take medications as prescribed. The promotion of patients' smartphone medication reminder app (SMRA) use shows promise as a feasible and cost-effective way to support their medication adherence. Providing training on SMRA use, guided by the technology acceptance model (TAM), could be a promising intervention to promote patients' app use.

Listening to patients' voices: linguistic indicators related to diabetes self-management.

A great deal of research in health care has examined a wide range of variables to better understand the degree to which patients follow the advice of medical professionals in managing their health, known as adherence. This paper explains the development of the linguistic systems to describe and evaluate two psychosocial constructs (i.e.

Coping with chronic illness: information use and treatment adherence among people with diabetes.

This study's goal is to understand the complex relationship among information usage, medication adherence, and disease management in people with diabetes. Toward this end, we conducted 21 in-depth interviews with Type 2 diabetics. We queried patients on the sources and adequacy of information that they received about their disease, as well as on how closely they adhered to their prescribed medication regimen.

Patient-directed medicine labeling: text differences between the United States and Spain.

As part of a larger project to examine the complexities of patient adherence to medical directions, the current study compares written information given with prescribed medicines to patients in the United States (US) and Spain suffering from two chronic diseases. First, the legal context of the voluntary nature of the provision of such information in the US, and the mandatory nature of provision in Spain, was explored. Then, 30 drugs in common use in both countries, 19 for cardiovascular disease and 11 for endocrine disorders, were identified and the texts of the corresponding patient-directed written information were included in an electronic corpus and analysed.