Li-Ling Liao, Li-Chun Chang, Chia-Kuei Lee, I-Ju Lai
College students' perceptions of electronic cigarette risks and benefits: a concept mapping study
Health education research
medication nonadherence dialysis patients associated increased mortality higher healthcare costs assessed whether medication adherence influenced specific psychometric constructs measuring beliefs necessity medication concerns also tested whether medication knowledge health literacy illness perceptions influenced relationship study based data crosssectional inperson questionnaire administered random sample adult dialysis patients teaching hospital main outcome selfassessed medication adherence 8item morisky medication adherence scale predictors concerns medications necessity medication beliefs medication questionnaire health literacy medication knowledge medication knowledge evaluation tool cognitive emotional comprehensibility illness perceptions brief illness perception questionnaire path analysis performed using structural equations covariance variancebased models necessity medication increased standardized path coefficient 030 95 ci 005 054 concerns medication decreased standardized 033 057 009 medication adherence explaining variance outcome r2095 medication knowledge cognitive illness perceptions effects medication adherence either directly indirectly higher health literacy greater illness comprehension positive emotional view illness mediumtolarge sized effects increasing medication adherence indirect rather direct effects mediated decreases concerns medications standardized respectively 040 063016 060 085 034 033 052 013 interventions reduce patients concerns medications likely improve adherence rather interventions increase patients perceived necessity medication improving patients general health literacy facilitating better understanding positive perception illness probably achieve study potentially limited lack generalizability outside population setting conducted