Meanings of report adherence in English

This simple self- report adherence scale shows potential as a first-stage adherence screener in this setting.

Conclusion: These findings support that self- reported adherence is likely to be overestimated.

Limited understanding of prescribed medications may decrease validity of patient- reported adherence measures.

Measuring and reporting adherence is not routinely done well in complex interventions.

The primary end-points are improvement in HRQoL and self- reported adherence to anticoagulation.

The self- reported adherence of Brazilian pediatricians to international food allergy guidelines was low.

Some participants with high self- reported adherence actually had decreases in their biomarker levels.

Socially desirable responding might hamper the validity of self- reported adherence.

Studies on the relation between self- reported adherence and virologic treatment response have shown inconsistent results.

These characteristics should be taken into consideration when interpreting results from studies on self- reported adherence.

Self- reported adherence was assessed by questionnaires for nine months.

Self- reported adherence was of low utility by itself.

Conclusions: Overall, we observed that self- reported adherence measures can distinguish between clinically meaningful patterns of medication-taking behavior.

We included all studies reporting adherence rates as a primary or secondary outcome among HIV-infected pregnant women.

Conclusions: Stratifying patients according to their socially desirable response set improved the prediction of virological treatment response by self- reported adherence.

The knowledge and skills post course, and the improvement in self- reported adherence to COPD guidelines was similar in both groups.