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Instrument Title

Self-Reported Adherence Interview

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Source Article

Kalichman, S. C., Cain, D., Fuhrel, A., Eaton, L., Di Fonzo, K., & Ertl, T. (2004). Assessing medication adherence self-efficacy among low-literacy patients: development of a pictographic visual analogue scale. Health Education Research, 20(1), 24-35.

Response Options

Number of pills missed in the past 3 days, number of pills missed in the past month and the time since the participant last missed taking their medications.

Survey Items

  1. Asked to name the drugs they used.
  2. Recall the times they had taken each drug yesterday, the day before yesterday, and the day before that.
  3. How many pills were missed in the past month?
  4. Asked them the time since they last missed taking their medication.

Internal Reliability

Cronbach’s a = 0.72

Validity

Criterion-related validity was assessed via comparison with indicators of medication adherence

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Terms Of Use

Individuals may use this information for research or educational purposes only and may not use this information for commercial purposes. When using this instrument, please cite:

Kalichman, S. C., Cain, D., Fuhrel, A., Eaton, L., Di Fonzo, K., & Ertl, T. (2004). Assessing medication adherence self-efficacy among low-literacy patients: development of a pictographic visual analogue scale. Health Education Research, 20(1), 24-35.

When presenting results using any survey information you obtained from the SABI, please acknowledge the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH funded program P30 AI50410.