Patients' Beliefs about Medicines in a primary care setting in Germany

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 409-413

  Mahler, Cornelia ^a   Hermann, Katja ^a   Horne, Rob ^b   Jank, Susanne ^a   Haefeli, Walter Emil ^a   Szecsenyi, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adherence; beliefs about medicines; Germany; primary care; psychometric properties; questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELIEFS ABOUT MEDICINES QUESTIONNAIRE; CHRONIC PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MEDICINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84858122744     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01589.x     Document Type: Article

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