Chronic diseases and medication adherence behaviors : psychological research in Ibero-American countries / Cirilo H. García Cadena, Rafael Ballester Arnal, Julio Alfonso Piña López, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García Cadena, Cirilo H. (Cirilo Humberto)

Ballester Arnal, Rafael.

Piña López, Julio Alfonso.

Series:

Health psychology research focus series.

Health psychology research focus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine and psychology.

Chronic diseases--Treatment.

Chronic diseases.

Patient compliance.

Hispanic Americans--Psychology.

Hispanic Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents scientific literature on treatment adherence and empirical research, as well as factors that influence it, both in Anglo-Saxon culture and Iberoamerican countries. This work summarizes the updating of analysis and research works carried out by a group of researchers, composed by related psychologists and health professionals from eight Iberoamerican countries: Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, United States of America, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. All of them are professionally experienced in the health field in their respective countries of origin.

Contents:

Treatment adherence : a theoretical analysis / María José Méndez Martos ... [et al.]

Treatment adherence in chronic kidney disease : a review of the literature / Carolina Santillán Torres Torija

Chronic kidney disease : graft nephropathy multifactors / Nicolina Calvanese ... [et al.]

Paradox in health services : arterial reactivity to medical consultation in normotensive persons / Angélica Riveros Rosas and Patricia Ortega-Andeane

Analytic framework for the study of treatment adherence : results of research in Cuban hypertensive patients / Libertad de los Ángeles Martín Alfonso, Héctor Demetrio Bayarre Vea, and Jorge Amado Grau Ábalo

Psychosocial factors, adherence treatment, and metabolic control in type 2 diabetic Chilean patients / Manuel Ortiz Parada, Eugenia Ortiz Parada, and Pablo Vera-Villaroel

Socioeconomic trajectories across the life course and HIV/AIDS adherence behaviors among affected women / Marcela Arrivillaga Quintero, Michael W. Ross, and María Teresa Varela Arévalo

Challenges to antiretroviral adherence : health beliefs, social support, and gender role in non-adherent men living with HIV in Puerto Rico / Karen Nieves-Lugo and José Toro-Alfonso

Adherence to treatment in spanish HIV patients : psychological profile associated with adherence behavior / Rafael Ballester Arnal ... [et al.]

Psychological and biological variables among HIV 100% adherent patients : a path analysis / Julio Alfonso Piña López ... [et al.].

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61470-763-4

OCLC:

829862243