A New Attitude Towards Treatment Measure Predicts Survival Over 17 Years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For patients diagnosed with chronic illness, attitude towards treatment may play an important role in health and survival. For example, negative attitudes towards treatment have been related to poorer adherence to treatment recommendations and prescribed medication across a range of chronic illnesses. In addition, prior research has shown that attitude towards treatment assessed through a psychiatric interview predicted survival at 1 year after bone marrow transplantation with great accuracy (> 90%).

Objective

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between a self-report attitude to a treatment measure that operationalized a psychiatric interview, and survival over 17 years in a sample of people living with HIV (PLWH).

Participants and desig

SUBMITTER: Ironson G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9360262 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature