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1. Which choices below best reflect the problem statement for the instructor-assigned article? a. According to the World Health Organization, adherence to long-term therapies averages only 50% in developed countries. b. This study used a prospective, correlational design to examine the relationships among illness representations, treatment beliefs, medication adherence, and 30-day readmission rates in aging adults with CHF. c. Understanding the factors that affect adherence is critical in developing strategies to increase adherence and prevent negative outcomes, including 30-day hospital readmissions. d. According to the American Heart Association, 5.1 million Americans have this chronic condition. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 31(3), 245-254. doi: 10.1097/JCN.0000000000000249
the best the problem statement for the instructor-assigned article is "B" "This study used a prospective, correlational design to examine the relationships among illness representations, treatment beliefs, medication adherence, and 30-day readmission rates in aging adults with CHF. c. Understanding the factors that affect adherence is critical in developing strategies to increase adherence and prevent negative outcomes, including 30-day hospital readmissions. d. According to the American Heart Association, 5.1 million Americans have this chronic condition".
Participants were highly adherent to their medications. Individuals who did not believe their treatment was effective in controlling their HF were readmitted within 30 days of hospital discharge for HF exacerbation; that is, treatment control was inversely related to 30-day hospital readmission. In post hoc analyses, personal control was inversely related to dichotomized medication adherence and necessity-concern differential was directly related to dichotomized medication adherence. The necessity-concern differential, or the belief that medication necessity outweighed the concerns they had about their medicines, was a significant predictor of medication adherence.
The most of the cases the patient are not adherent regular medication due that medical conditions are continuing to worsening or chance of readmitting to hospitals mostly