Stage 2: Action Plan or Coping Strategy Once a patient has identified a potential concern or health threat, he or she moves to the next stage of developing a coping procedure, a plan to address the problem. With respect to medications, the patient may try to negotiate with the prescriber to reduce or stop the [...]
Stage 1: Cognitive Representation of the Health Threat The self-regulation process starts when an event occurs that leads the patient to form an idea or representation that is perceived as a potential threat to health. In the pharmaceutical context, a prescribed medication or a prescribed dose may be perceived as more harmful than the perceived [...]
Intentional nonadherence occurs when a patient intentionally alters medication therapy by changing the dose or by stopping or starting a medication. Various terms have been used to describe this phenomenon, such as testing, tailoring, self-tailoring, strategic nonadherence, self-regulation, and active or reflective self-regulation.15 The reasons for deviating from the prescribed course of therapy are perfectly [...]
INTRODUCTION All pharmacists have had to face situations in which a patient has decided to not take a medication at all, to stop taking a medication prematurely, or to depart from the prescribed regimen. Often, the pharmacist may not be aware of such decisions, as in the case of patients who leave the doctor’s office [...]
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