M. Robin DiMatteo

TL;DR: Evidence of strong covariation of depression and medical noncompliance suggests the importance of recognizing depression as a risk factor for poor outcomes among patients who might not be adhering to medical advice.

TL;DR: This review offers insights into the literature on patient adherence, providing direction for future research, and focuses on reliability and validity of adherence measurement and systematic study of substantive and methodologic moderators.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors link patient treatment adherence to physician-patient communication and meta-analysis allows estimates of the overall effects both in correlational research and in experimental interventions involving the training of physicians.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature from 1948 to 2001, 122 studies were found that correlated structural or functional social support with patient adherence to medical regimens and found significant average r-effect sizes between adherence and practical, emotional, and unidimensional social support; family cohesiveness and conflict; marital status; and living arrangement of adults.

TL;DR: According to a stringent random effects model, adherence is most strongly related to outcomes in studies of nonmedication regimens, where measures of adherence are continuous, and where the disease is chronic (particularly hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, intestinal disease, and sleep apnea).