Corrine I Voils1, David C Steffens, Elizabeth P Flint, Hayden B Bosworth. 1. Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, and Health Services Research & Development, Building 16, Room 70, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (152), 508 Fulton St., Durham, NC 27705, USA. voils001@mc.duke.edu
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The authors examined whether social support and locus of control (LOC), either individually or jointly, would be associated with subsequent self-reported medication adherence and treatment barriers in a sample of depressed elderly patients. METHODS: A group of 85 elderly patients with major depression was enrolled in the Mental Health Clinical Research Center for the Study of Depression in Later Life at Duke University and treated with a standardized algorithm. During the course of the study, participants completed measures of social support and internal locus of control (LOC). A little more than 1 year later, they completed general measures of medication adherence and treatment barriers. RESULTS: Increasing subjective and instrumental social support and non-family interaction were associated with greater adherence among patients high in internal LOC but not among patients low in internal LOC. Less instrumental social support was associated with more treatment barriers among patients low in internal LOC but not among patients high in internal LOC. CONCLUSION: The relationship between social support and antidepressant medication adherence is moderated by beliefs about control over one's illness.
OBJECTIVE: The authors examined whether social support and locus of control (LOC), either individually or jointly, would be associated with subsequent self-reported medication adherence and treatment barriers in a sample of depressed elderly patients. METHODS: A group of 85 elderly patients with major depression was enrolled in the Mental Health Clinical Research Center for the Study of Depression in Later Life at Duke University and treated with a standardized algorithm. During the course of the study, participants completed measures of social support and internal locus of control (LOC). A little more than 1 year later, they completed general measures of medication adherence and treatment barriers. RESULTS: Increasing subjective and instrumental social support and non-family interaction were associated with greater adherence among patients high in internal LOC but not among patients low in internal LOC. Less instrumental social support was associated with more treatment barriers among patients low in internal LOC but not among patients high in internal LOC. CONCLUSION: The relationship between social support and antidepressant medication adherence is moderated by beliefs about control over one's illness.
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