Background: Sociobehavioral factors influence adherence to inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) in
adults with asthma and warrant exploration as explanations of apparent racial disparities in …

To assess understanding of numerical concepts in asthma self-management instructions, a
4-item Asthma Numeracy Questionnaire (ANQ) was developed and read to 73 adults with …

There is growing evidence that a number of pulmonary diseases affect women differently and
with a greater degree of severity than men. The causes for such sex disparity is the focus of …

BACKGROUND: Adherence to CF treatments is poor, which can lead to negative health
outcomes. The objective of our study was to qualitatively investigate the barriers and facilitators …

Adherence broadly encompasses the decisions patients make as to whether health care
advice should be initiated, as well as the degree to which the recommended health behaviors, …

Background:Treatment of anxiety and depression, the most common psychiatric symptoms
in older adults with mild dementia, requires innovative approaches due to the high cost and …

Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and COPD are typically managed by daily
inhaled medication. However, the efficacy of an inhaled medication depends upon a patient’s …

Background: Well-designed clinical research needs to obtain information that is applicable
to the general population. However, most current studies fail to include substantial cohorts of …

Background: Qualitative research is an important research methodology for understanding
the health beliefs and attitudes of patients. These beliefs and attitudes have been proposed …

BACKGROUND: Vision loss in retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a slowly progressive and inexorable
threat to patients' independence. It is not surprising that RP patients, many of whom are …