Leveraging values to promote adherence to endocrine therapy among breast cancer survivors: A mixed-methods investigation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improving medication adherence represents one of the greatest behavioral challenges in medicine. Personal values are an under-examined source of motivation for adhering to medication. This secondary analysis leverages a mixed-method approach to understanding a novel, online, values-based intervention ('REACH') for promoting endocrine therapy (ET) adherence among breast cancer survivors, using data from a randomized trial.

Methods

Breast cancer survivors with challenges taking ET (n = 88) were randomized 1:1 to ET Education + Values (REACH) or Education-only online interventions. This report focuses on the three values strategies used in REACH to promote ET adherence: affirming health-related values, using values-based perspective-taking to motivate adherenc

SUBMITTER: Arch JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12311937 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature