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History of the Morisky Medication Adherence Scales
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History of the Morisky Medication Adherence Scales
- 1983 - American Journal of Public Health published results from my doctoral dissertation focused on long term outcomes of 400 hypertensive patience who were given educational counseling on the importance of medication taking vs. a control group who were not given any counseling.
- 1983 - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) recommended the educational protocol to become standard medical practice in the clinical setting.
- 1986 - Creation of MGL: Medical Care Journal published results of the impact on educational interventions on behavioral change and the scale became the Morisky, Green, and Levine Medication Adherence Questionnaire MGL MAQ.
- 1986 - Creation of the MMAS-4: Morisky Medication Adherence Scale MMAS-4 was developed based on many focus group sessions with anti-tuberculosis medication patients to gain insights in patient responses to the MGL.
- 1993 - 1997 - Creation of the MMAS-8: Morisky Medication Adherence Scale MMAS-8 was developed on an NIH research grant where I was an external consultant at the Marin Luther King Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles. A great deal of effort has been put into the development of the MMAS-8 relative to medication taking behavior questions.
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