Depression moderates the associations between beliefs about medicines and medication adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Cross-sectional study

Brandstetter, Susanne and Riedelbeck, Gertraud and Steinmann, Mark and Loss, Julika and Ehrenstein, Boris and Apfelbacher, Christian (2018) Depression moderates the associations between beliefs about medicines and medication adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Cross-sectional study. JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, 23 (9). pp. 1185-1195. ISSN 1359-1053, 1461-7277

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Abstract

The necessity-concerns framework' postulates that patients' adherence behaviour is influenced by beliefs about the necessity and the concerns patients have regarding their prescribed medicines. We hypothesized that depression moderates the associations between beliefs about medicines and medication adherence among people with rheumatoid arthritis. Using multivariate logistic regression, we observed that people experiencing more depressive symptoms showed stronger associations between necessity beliefs and adherence as well as attenuated associations between concerns and adherence, respectively, in a cross-sectional sample (N=361). Thus, depression moderates the associations postulated in the necessity-concerns framework' in a differential way in people with rheumatoid arthritis.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: HOSPITAL ANXIETY; DISEASE-ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; DISORDER; HEALTH; beliefs about medicines; depression; medication adherence; rheumatoid arthritis
Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
Divisions: Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 06 Mar 2020 06:38
Last Modified: 06 Mar 2020 06:38
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/14188

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