Can Smartphone Apps Assist People with Serious Mental Illness in Taking Medications as Prescribed?MedicationSerious mental illnessSmartphone appsTreatmentAdherence research commonly happens in a silo, focused on a particular disease state or type of therapy. Learning from outside disciplines can bring new...
Make sure that you are reading the precautions and the labels. Do not forget to tell your health care professional regarding all the other medications that have been prescribed to you already. Ensure that you are taking the medications as prescribed. Make sure that you are not taking more than...
This paper documents the meanings attached to taking anti-depressant medications. Indepth interview materials from a sample of persons diagnosed and treated for depression suggest that taking doctor-prescribed drugs involves an extensive interpretive process about the meanings of having an emotional "...
Nonadherence to prescribed medication is a widespread health care problem. It is particularly prevalent among older adults because they take disproportionately more medications (Morrow, Leirer, & Sheikh, 1988; Park, 1992). Although related to many factors, nonadherence is also traced to poor communicat...
“Dietary coaching on what foods to try and how to eat while taking these medications can help patients reduce the risk of medication-related gastrointestinal side effects, such as bloating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and constipation,” Almondoz said. ...
If complications associated with high blood pressure are present, other drugs may also be prescribed. Whatever the treatment prescribed for you, it is a good idea to keep the following guidelines in mind when you're taking prescription drugs. Know the names of your medications and how they ...
It's easier to take your high blood pressure drugs exactly as prescribed when you make it a part of your daily routine. Try some of these ideas to help you remember to take your medication: Link taking your medicine with another daily routine, such as brushing yourteethor fixing your morni...
From doing a little research, these are some of the most commonly prescribed medications that list a possible side effect of back pain. I have included the primary reason for taking the medication in parentheses. The mechanism of action and reason for the side effect is poorly understood for ...
The academy also urged people to continue to use their inhaled asthma medications (controller) as prescribed by their doctor, even if they don't have symptoms, and to know what to do if their asthma flares up. It also recommended that people continue to use their control medications, such ...
Over diagnosis is now commonplace even though some are beginning to acknowledge that the medications often prescribed for ADHD arechemically identical to speed, or methamphetamine, a class I illegal street drug. In the case of Adderall, Dr. Carl Hart has explained that this is in fact the case...