Zijuan Shi, Si Wang, Maoqing Chen, Aimin Hu, Qingwen Long, Yujun Lee
The effect of music therapy on language communication and social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Frontiers in psychology
medication nonadherence remains significant obstacle achieving improved health outcomes patients chronic disease selfefficacy confidence ones ability perform given task taking ones medications important determinant medication adherence indicating need reliable valid tools measuring construct study sought develop selfefficacy scale medication adherence chronic disease management used patients broad range literacy skills selfefficacy appropriate medication use seams developed multidisciplinary team expertise medication adherence health literacy psychometric properties evaluated among 436 patients coronary heart disease comorbid conditions reliability evaluated measuring internal consistency testretest reliability principal component factor analysis performed evaluate validity seams reliability validity analyses also performed separately among patients low higher literacy levels final 13item scale good internal consistency reliability cronbachs alpha 089 twofactor solution found explaining 523 scales variance scale performed similarly across literacy levels seams reliable valid instrument may provide valuable assessment medication selfefficacy chronic disease management appears appropriate use patients low literacy skills