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Abstract
Adolescents with chronic diseases must adhere to medication regimens to control their symptoms and avoid long-term complications. Despite its importance, medication adherence is low among ...adolescents. This commentary briefly covers the challenges described in the literature associated with measuring and addressing low medication adherence in adolescents. Next, it presents the evidence for the link between medication adherence and two prevalent psychological characteristics that have not been properly assessed so far: delay discounting (i.e., the relative value assigned to the future compared to the present), and risk tolerance. These psychological traits deserve further studies and are potentially amenable to interventions to improve medication adherence in adolescents with chronic conditions.
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