Chronic illness adjustment scale (CIAS): Development and validation.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to (i) develop a self-report instrument to measure adjustment to chronic illness, (ii) evaluate its core structure and (iii) study various psychometric properties in the development of this instrument.

Method: The entire process of developing and validating the instrument is conducted in different phases: item writing and content validation; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to extract dimensions of the instrument; reliability and validity testing. A total of 1095 participants were included in the study.

Enhancing adherence and management in patients with hypertension: Impact of form and frequency of knowledge intervention.

Background: The alarming rise in prevalence of hypertension warrants psychosocial methods supplementing pharmacotherapy for better management and prevention of cardiac emergencies. The objective of the study was to assess the differential impact of the form and frequency of knowledge intervention on management of primary hypertension.

Materials And Method: The study was conducted on 256 hypertensive patients recruited through purposive sampling at health centers in Hyderabad, India.