Impact of depressive symptoms on medication adherence in older adults with chronic neurological diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nonadherence to medication contributes substantially to worse health outcomes. Especially among older adults with chronic illness, multimorbidity leads to complex medication regimes and high nonadherence rates. In previous research, depressive symptomology has been identified as a major contributor to nonadherence, and some authors hypothesize a link via motivational deficits and low self-efficacy. However, the exact mechanisms linking depressive symptomology and nonadherence are not yet understood. This is in part because the often-employed sum scores cannot do justice to the complexity of depressive symptomology; instead, it is recommended to assess the influence of individual symptoms.

Methods

Following this symptom-based approach, we performed correlation, net

SUBMITTER: Schonenberg A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10870557 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature