SynthesisJournal of behavioral medicine2016
Blood pressure outcomes of medication adherence interventions: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of medication adherence and mortality in chronic disease: Implications for clinical guidelines and policy.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic Review Examining the Behavior Change Techniques in Medication Adherence Intervention Studies Among People With Type 2 Diabetes.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence in People With Hypertension: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Health science reports · 2025Article
- A Narrative Review on Plant Extracts for Metabolic Syndrome: Efficacy, Safety, and Technological Advances.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Can a mock medication-taking learning activity enable pharmacy students to experience the range of barriers and facilitators to medication adherence? An analysis informed by the Theoretical Domains Framework and COM-B model.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2024Article
- Barriers and Solutions to Improve Therapeutic Adherence from the Perspective of Primary Care and Hospital-Based Physicians.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- Mean blood pressure according to the hypertension care cascade: Analysis of six national health surveys in Peru.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2021Article
- On reporting and interpreting statistical significance and p values in medical research.BMJ evidence-based medicine · 2021Article
- Brazilian Guidelines of Hypertension - 2020.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2021Article
- The interaction between self-care behavior and disease knowledge on the decline in renal function in chronic kidney disease.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Lurking in plain sight: Hypertension awareness and treatment among New York City taxi/for-hire vehicle drivers.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2020Article
- Prescribing Patterns of Antihypertensive Medications in US Ambulatory Care Settings.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Interventions to Support Behavioral Self-Management of Chronic Diseases.Annual review of public health · 2019Review
- Conceptual Model of Medication Adherence in Older Adults with High Blood Pressure-An Integrative Review of the Literature.Current hypertension reviews · 2019Review
- The impact of personal and cultural beliefs on medication adherence of patients with chronic illnesses: a systematic review.Patient preference and adherence · 2019Review
- Improving medication adherence in stroke survivors: the intervention development process.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Adherence to Antihypertensive Therapy.The Medical clinics of North America · 2017Review
- Treatment adherence and illness self-management: introduction to the special issue.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2016Article
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
This systematic review applied meta-analytic procedures to integrate primary research that examined blood pressure outcomes of medication adherence interventions. Random-effects model analysis calculated standardized mean difference effect sizes. Exploratory dichotomous and continuous moderator analyses using meta-analytic analogues of ANOVA and regression were performed. Codable data were extracted from 156 reports with 60,876 participants. The overall weighted mean difference systolic effect size was 0.235 across 161 treatment versus control comparisons. The diastolic effect size was 0.189 from 181 comparisons. Effect sizes were significantly heterogeneous. Common risks of bias included lack of allocation concealment, unmasked data collectors, and absent intention-to-treat analyses. Exploratory moderator analyses suggested that habit-based interventions may be most effective. The largest effect sizes were for interventions delivered by pharmacists. The modest magnitude effect sizes suggest future research should explore novel higher dose interventions that might address multiple levels of influence on adherence behavior.
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