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Published on: August 24, 2019
Adherence, asthma control, generic and disease-specific quality-of-life instruments in asthma
Duska M Franic1, Larry Aull, Dennis Grauer
1College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. dfranic@mail.rx.uga.edu
Abstract:
Prior studies have investigated the association between generic health-related quality of life and medication adherence. The objective of this study was to assess the association between medication adherence and health-related quality of life using both a disease-specific and generic metric in a community setting. Overall, the authors' study findings show no association between adherence and health-related quality of life, supporting the results by Cote and colleagues that factors other than medication adherence are important in explaining health-related quality of life. Furthermore, adherence was not significantly associated with asthma severity, although the strong association between asthma control and health-related quality of life, and asthma control and adherence indicates that asthma control is an important vital sign.
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