Reasons For Non Medication Compliance

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Personal Reaction Honestly I found that both these articles were helpful to me. Medication compliance is not something that everyone thinks about. I had never really looked into medication compliance or really understood it. I never thought that there would be so many reasons why patients would choose to be non-compliant with their medications. Also I enjoyed reading to different researches on reasons for medication compliance and finding that they correspond to each other.
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After reviewing the research in both these articles, I was able to better understand where the patients were coming from when they say they don’t like medication compliance. I feel that after learning about reasons for non-medication compliance that I can

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