Alyssa Anderson, Susan Barcinas
Virtual Program Delivery: Learning Through Extension Nutrition Educators' Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal of nutrition education and behavior
medication nonadherence remains significant barrier achieving better health outcomes patients chronic diseases previous selfreported medication adherence tools developed context malaysia population commonly used tool mmas8 longer economical requires license currently every form used charged hence need develop validate new medication adherence tool malaysia medication adherence assessment tool mymaat developed multidisciplinary team expertise medication adherence health literacy face content validities mymaat established panel experts total 495 patients type 2 diabetes recruited ministry health facilities consisting five hospitals five primary health clinics testretest conducted 42 patients one week following first data collection exploratory factor analysis performed evaluate validity mymaat final item mymaat compared seams hba1c medication possession ratio mpr score pharmacists subjective assessment hypothesis testing validity mymaat12 achieved acceptable internal consistency cronbachs alpha 0910 stable reliability testretest score showed good excellent correlation spearmans rho 096 p 0001 mymaat significant moderate association seams spearmans rho 044 p 0001 significant relationship hba1c 8 8 21 134 p 0001 mpr 21 136 p 0001 pharmacists subjective assessment categories 21 31 p 0001 sensitivity mymaat12 tested hba1c 729 specificity 43 study demonstrates mymaat12 together methods assessment may make better screening tool identify patients nonadherence medications