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There have been over 50 studies on patients who fail to take their medications “as directed.” The patients in these studies usually required chronic maintenance therapy for conditions including tuberculosis, schizophrenia, anemia, rheumatoid arthritis, and other diseases seen in general practice. Attention has also been paid to the special problems posed by geriatric patients and by children who depend for medication on their parents.
Barry Blackwell (1972) studied this question.