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The Differential Outcomes Procedure Enhances Adherence to Treatment: A Simulated Study with Healthy Adults
Memory for medical recommendations is a prerequisite for good adherence to treatment, and therefore to ameliorate the negative effects of the disease, a problem that mainly affects people with memory deficits. We conducted a simulated study to test the utility of a procedure (the differential outcom...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4753554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913010 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01780 |
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author | Molina, Michael Plaza, Victoria Fuentes, Luis J. Estévez, Angeles F. |
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description | Memory for medical recommendations is a prerequisite for good adherence to treatment, and therefore to ameliorate the negative effects of the disease, a problem that mainly affects people with memory deficits. We conducted a simulated study to test the utility of a procedure (the differential outcomes procedure, DOP) that may improve adherence to treatment by increasing the patient’s learning and retention of medical recommendations regarding medication. The DOP requires the structure of a conditional discriminative learning task in which correct choice responses to specific stimulus–stimulus associations are reinforced with a particular reinforcer or outcome. In two experiments, participants had to learn and retain in their memory the pills that were associated with particular disorders. To assess whether the DOP improved long-term retention of the learned disorder/pill associations, participants were asked to perform two recognition memory tests, 1 h and 1 week after completing the learning phase. The results showed that compared with the standard non-differential outcomes procedure, the DOP produced better learning and long-term retention of the previously learned associations. These findings suggest that the DOP can be used as a useful complementary technique in intervention programs targeted at increasing adherence to clinical recommendations. |
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spelling | pubmed-47535542016-02-24 The Differential Outcomes Procedure Enhances Adherence to Treatment: A Simulated Study with Healthy Adults Molina, Michael Plaza, Victoria Fuentes, Luis J. Estévez, Angeles F. Front Psychol Psychology Memory for medical recommendations is a prerequisite for good adherence to treatment, and therefore to ameliorate the negative effects of the disease, a problem that mainly affects people with memory deficits. We conducted a simulated study to test the utility of a procedure (the differential outcomes procedure, DOP) that may improve adherence to treatment by increasing the patient’s learning and retention of medical recommendations regarding medication. The DOP requires the structure of a conditional discriminative learning task in which correct choice responses to specific stimulus–stimulus associations are reinforced with a particular reinforcer or outcome. In two experiments, participants had to learn and retain in their memory the pills that were associated with particular disorders. To assess whether the DOP improved long-term retention of the learned disorder/pill associations, participants were asked to perform two recognition memory tests, 1 h and 1 week after completing the learning phase. The results showed that compared with the standard non-differential outcomes procedure, the DOP produced better learning and long-term retention of the previously learned associations. These findings suggest that the DOP can be used as a useful complementary technique in intervention programs targeted at increasing adherence to clinical recommendations. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4753554/ /pubmed/26913010 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01780 Text en Copyright © 2015 Molina, Plaza, Fuentes and Estévez. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Molina, Michael Plaza, Victoria Fuentes, Luis J. Estévez, Angeles F. The Differential Outcomes Procedure Enhances Adherence to Treatment: A Simulated Study with Healthy Adults |
title | The Differential Outcomes Procedure Enhances Adherence to Treatment: A Simulated Study with Healthy Adults |
title_full | The Differential Outcomes Procedure Enhances Adherence to Treatment: A Simulated Study with Healthy Adults |
title_fullStr | The Differential Outcomes Procedure Enhances Adherence to Treatment: A Simulated Study with Healthy Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | The Differential Outcomes Procedure Enhances Adherence to Treatment: A Simulated Study with Healthy Adults |
title_short | The Differential Outcomes Procedure Enhances Adherence to Treatment: A Simulated Study with Healthy Adults |
title_sort | differential outcomes procedure enhances adherence to treatment: a simulated study with healthy adults |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4753554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913010 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01780 |
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