A Sankar

Datos Biográficos

ID8930633
NOMBREA Sankar
NOMBRESA
APELLIDOSankar
FIRMASANKAR A
AFILIACIONESa Wayne State University , Detroit , USA
ORCID0009-0002-2896-9385
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS2
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR2
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2002
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2007
ÍNDICE H0

  • What is a missed dose? Implications for construct validity and patient adherence

    A Sankar, A P Sankar et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2007

    The construct 'missed dose' is central to many assessments of medication adherence. However, few studies have investigated how patients or clinicians conceptualize missed doses or the extent of the concordance or discordance between clinicians and patients. To address this gap we conducted semi-structured interviews with 45 sero-positive African American adults taking HAART and 17 of their clinicians. Results reveal large variability in missed do…

  • Adherence discourse among African-American women taking Haart

    A Sankar, Mark Luborsky et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2002

    Low adherence is the single most important challenge to controlling HIV through the use of high acting anti-retrovirals (HAART). Non-adherence poses an immediate threat to individuals who develop resistant forms of the virus as well as a public health threat if those individuals pass on treatment-resistant forms of the virus. To understand the concerns and perceptions that promote or deter adherence to antiretroviral medication by HIV-positive Af…