Psychological perspective of medication adherence in transplantation
Concetta De Pasquale, Massimiliano Veroux, Michele Fornaro, Nunzia Sinagra, Giusi Basile, Cecilia Gozzo, Roberta Santini, Alessandra Costa, Maria Luisa Pistorio
Concetta De Pasquale, Massimiliano Veroux, Michele Fornaro, Nunzia Sinagra, Giusi Basile, Cecilia Gozzo, Roberta Santini, Alessandra Costa, Maria Luisa Pistorio, Vascular Surgery and Organ Transplant Unit, Department of Medical, Surgery Sciences and Advanced Technologies “GF Ingrassia”, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
Author contributions: De Pasquale C and Pistorio ML contributed to study conception, design, and writing; Sinagra N, Basile G, Gozzo C, Santini R and Costa A contributed to data acquisition; Fornaro M contributed to data analysis and interpretation; Veroux M contributed to editing, reviewing, and final approval of the article.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the University of Catania Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None of the authors declare any conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at depasqua@unict.it. Participants gave informed consent for data sharing.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Concetta De Pasquale, MD, PhD, Vascular Surgery and Organ Transplant Unit, Department of Medical, Surgery Sciences and Advanced Technologies “GF Ingrassia,” University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia, 84, 95123 Catania, Italy.
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Received: June 24, 2016
Peer-review started: June 27, 2016
First decision: August 11, 2016
Revised: September 13, 2016
Accepted: October 25, 2016
Article in press: October 27, 2016
Published online: December 24, 2016
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