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Barriers and Facilitators of Adherence

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Contributors to a person’s adherence or non-adherence are complex, varied, and highly individual. Yet common themes have emerged and show that barriers to and facilitators of adherence occur on multiple levels: individual, family, healthcare systems, and cultural issues. Some predictors of adherence are stable or fixed and must be considered in clinical care delivery, research, and policy, while other contributors have the potential to be modified through targeted clinical intervention strategies. This chapter will review predictors of adherence in youth with chronic conditions across these multiple levels.

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  2. Department of Pediatrics, Section of Psychology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

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Schwartz, D., Axelrad, M., Hilliard, M. (2015). Barriers and Facilitators of Adherence. In: Healthcare Partnerships for Pediatric Adherence. SpringerBriefs in Public Health(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13668-4_3

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