Patient Preference and Adherence

Dove Medical Press is pleased to invite you to submit your research to an upcoming Article Collection on "Treatment adherence in COPD and asthma", organized by Guest Advisors Dr. Amy Hai Yan Chan, Dr. Kebede Beyene, and Dr. Christina Pearce in Patient Preference and Adherence.

Asthma and COPD are two of the most common long-term conditions in the world affecting over 339 million and 212 million people worldwide respectively. While there are effective treatments available to manage asthma and COPD, including bronchodilators and anti-inflammatory medications, these need to be used correctly and appropriately to have a maximal therapeutic effect. However, adherence to these medications has traditionally been poor due to several interrelated factors, including socioeconomic, patient-, medication-, condition-, and healthcare system/healthcare provider-related factors. Poor adherence is associated with reduced quality of life, poor clinical outcomes, higher mortality, and high healthcare and societal costs.

While there have been decades of research into asthma and COPD treatment adherence, overall adherence rates remain poor. This Article Collection invites papers that report novel research in this area, including but not limited to:
- Innovative interventions to improve adherence to asthma and COPD treatments
- Use of novel technologies to promote adherence
- Novel methods of measuring and analyzing adherence
- Use of artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to improve adherence
- Personalized medicine approaches to tackle non-adherence

All manuscripts submitted to this Article Collection will undergo desk assessment and peer-review as part of our standard editorial process. Guest Advisors for this collection will not be involved in peer-reviewing manuscripts unless they are an existing member of the Editorial Board. Please review the journal Aims and Scope and author submission instructions prior to submitting a manuscript.

The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2023.

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Dove Medical Press is pleased to invite you to submit your research to an upcoming Article Collection on "Treatment non-adherence in psychiatric disorders: conceptual and clinical aspects", organized by Guest Advisors Professor Subho Chakrabarti and Professor Saeed Farooq in Patient Preference and Adherence.

About half or more of the patients with chronic psychiatric illnesses either do not take medications correctly, miss appointments, or drop out from psychotherapy. Rates of non-adherence have remained relatively unchanged over the years despite the introduction of newer treatments. However, there has been a gradual shift from an illness-centered to a patient-centered approach to adherence in psychiatry. This shift has been propelled by the inability of demographic and clinical factors to fully explain non-adherence, the emergence of health-behavior theories, a move away from earlier compliance-based models to those that place greater emphasis on collaborative relationships between patients and clinicians, and the growing use of psychosocial treatments in the management of non-adherence.

Despite advances in conceptual and clinical aspects, non-adherence continues to be a significant problem and leads to sub-optimal clinical benefit, adverse clinical outcomes, increased health-care costs, and greater burden on the patient, family, and the wider society. Moreover, our understanding of this complex phenomenon and attempts to alleviate the problem have been inadequate. Thus, the subject of non-adherence in psychiatric disorders is still relevant for both clinical practice and research endeavors.

This collection intends to include articles that focus on concepts, extent, consequences, detection, prediction, and management of non-adherence in various psychiatric disorders. The type of articles could include reviews, original research both quantitative and qualitative, and opinion pieces on the subject. Articles on non-adherence among vulnerable patient groups such as children, adolescents, the elderly, and those from different ethnic or cultural backgrounds could make an important contribution. To align with the current broader perspective of the phenomenon, articles that emphasize patient perspectives and psychosocial management of non-adherence are particularly welcome.

All manuscripts submitted to this Article Collection will undergo desk assessment and peer-review as part of our standard editorial process. Guest Advisors for this collection will not be involved in peer-reviewing manuscripts unless they are an existing member of the Editorial Board. Please review the journal Aims and Scope and author submission instructions prior to submitting a manuscript.

The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2023.

Please submit your manuscript on our website, quoting the promo code WUHOC to indicate that your submission is for consideration in this Article Collection.

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Dove Medical Press is pleased to invite you to submit your research to an upcoming Article Collection on "Making An Impact in Diabetes Preference and Adherence Research" in Patient Preference and Adherence.

Diabetes is a significant clinical and economic burden in the United States and worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 37.3 million Americans have diabetes and 96 million have pre-diabetes. The total costs of diabetes were estimated to be $327 billion in 2017, up from $245 billion in 2012. By 2030, diabetes is estimated to cost $414 billion, or 1.69% of gross domestic product.

Management of diabetes requires diet, exercise, pharmacological treatment, and self-management. While there is a significant amount of evidence demonstrating the efficacy of these interventions, only about 50% of patients with diabetes achieve glycemic control and continue to have a higher risk of cardiovascular and/or renal disease and mortality.

While research of methods that address diabetes management adherence exists, actual adherence to clinical recommendations remains poor. To address this problem, it is important to take a holistic approach to examine reasons for non-adherence from all stakeholders, including patients, prescribers, institutions, and others. Furthermore, a focus on interventional research to address adherence and its impact on short- and long-term clinical and economic outcomes in high-risk populations is necessary as well. This Article Collection invites papers that report novel research in this area, including but not limited to innovative interventional studies that address the spectrum of adherence in prediabetes and diabetes management, innovative methods to measure adherence and its impact on clinical and economic outcomes particularly in high-risk groups, and evaluations using real-world data that identify factors of non-adherence including using social determinants of health. Studies in both children and adults are welcome. In this Article Collection we will consider reviews, original research both qualitative or quantitative, and opinion pieces on the subject.

The deadline for submissions is 6 November 2023. Please review the journal’s aims and scope and author submission instructions prior to submitting a manuscript.

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Guest advisor

Alexandra Perez, Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy

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Dr. Alexandra Perez has published many studies in the area of medication use and outcomes using existing national databases and also in pharmacoeconomic research in diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She hopes to make an impact in populations with diabetes by conducting meaningful research that will improve diabetes management and clinical outcomes.

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