Association of medication beliefs and self-efficacy with adherence in urban Hispanic and African-American rheumatoid arthritis patients

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 317-318

  Spruill, Tanya M ^a   Ogedegbe, Gbenga ^a   Harrold, Leslie R ^b   Potter, Jeffrey ^a   Scher, Jose U ^a   Rosenthal, Pamela B ^a   Greenberg, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; CORTICOSTEROID; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH BELIEF; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; URBAN AREA; YOUNG ADULT;

PATIENT PERSPECTIVE; PSYCHOLOGY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF EFFICACY; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889690881     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203560     Document Type: Letter

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