Instrument details

Instrument Title

ACTG-Rev: AIDS Clinical Trials Group Reasons for Missing Medication - Revised

View PDF - ACTG-R_Okonsky.pdf

Source Article

Okonsky, J. G., Webel, A., Rose, C. D., Johnson, M., Asher, A., Cuca, Y., ... & Portillo, C. J. (2015). Appreciating reasons for nonadherence in women. Health care for women international, 36(9), 1007-1025.

Response Options

4-point (never, rarely, sometime, often)

Survey Items

Rate each of the reasons for why you missed a dose:

1. Simply forgot
2. Was away from home
3. Fell asleep/slept through dose
4. Had too many pills to take
5. Felt depressed/overwhelmed
6. Felt sick or ill
7. Had time conflict taking pills
8. Was too busy with other things
9. Wanted to avoid side effects

Internal Reliability

Cronbach’s α = 0.93

Validity

Confirmatory factor analysis.

Google Scholar

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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:

Okonsky, J. G., Webel, A., Rose, C. D., Johnson, M., Asher, A., Cuca, Y., ... & Portillo, C. J. (2015). Appreciating reasons for nonadherence in women. Health care for women international, 36(9), 1007-1025.

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.