title: Helping the medicine go down. Nurses' and patients' perceptions about medication compliance.
abstract: The issue of medication compliance is a multidimensional phenomenon that rests not only with the patient, but also with the interactions of caregivers. Study results revealed that nurses and patients generally perceive estimated frequency of medication compliance to be similar, although increased length of time as a psychiatric nurse was associated with nurses perceiving patients as being less compliant. Reasons given by patients and nurses for medication noncompliance differed. Patients' responses were characterized by being more concrete and varied in nature than those of the nurse.
authors.affiliation: Florida State University, School of Nursing, Tallahassee 32306-3051.
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Lund
authors.forename: D I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Frank
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003657:Decision Making; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000523:psychology*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires