Outline One Piece Of Research Into Measuring Adherence

One piece of research into measuring adherence is Chung and Naya where they electronically assess compliance and adherence with an oral asthma medication in a field experiment. They used 57 asthmatic patients however only 47 patients completed the study. The participants began 12 weeks of treatment to be take twice daily, 8 hours apart. Adherence was measured by the TrackCap objectively recording each occasion that patients removed and replaced their medication bottle caps. Medicine was supposed to be taken two times a day. Adherence was measured by the TrackCap objectively recording each occasion the patients removed and replaces their bottle caps, this provides frequency and length of time between openings which should be 8 hours apart.  47 patients completed the study with a mean compliance of 80% and an adherence of 64% as measure by the TrackCap events. High rates of compliance were measured throughout the trial. The results show that compliance with and adherence to a treatment of an oral, asthma medication is high. The evidence supports the concept of measuring adherence as the compliance and adherence to a treatment of asthma medication is high.