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Morisky Medication Adherence Scales
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
MMAS-4 & MMAS-8MMAS-4 | MMAS-8 | 1) Do you ever forget to take your medicine? | 1) Do yous ometimes forget to take your pills? | 2) Are you careless at times about taking your medicine? | 2) People sometimes misstaking their medications for reasons other than forgetting.Thinking over the past two weeks, were there any days when you did not take your medicine? | 3) Sometimes if you feel worse when you take the medicine, do you stop taking it? | 3) Have you ever cut back or stopped taking your medicine without telling your doctor because you felt worse when you took it? | | | 4) When you travel or leave home, do you sometimes forget to bring along your medicine? | | | 5) Didy ou take all your medicine yesterday? | 4) When you feel better do you sometimes stop taking your medicine? | 6) When you feel like your symptomsareundercontrol,doyousometimesstoptakingyourmedicine? | | | 7) Taking medicine everyday is a real inconvenience for some people. Do you ever feel hassled about sticking to your treatment plan? | | | 8 ) How often do you haved ifficulty remembering to take all your medicine?
___A.Never/rarely?
___B.Onceinawhile?
___C.Sometimes?
___D.Usually?
___E.Allthetime |
ScoringAdherence | MMAS-4 Score | MMAS-8 Score | High Adherence | 0 | 0 | Medium Adherence | 1-2 | 1-2 | Low Adherence | 2-4 | 3-8 |
Credit: Morisky DE, Green LW, Levine DM. Concurrent and predictive validity of a self-reported measure of medication adherence. Med Care. 1986;24:67–74. |
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