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ABSTRACT
A study with a placebo was conducted. Healthy university students were given a placebo and were told to make one pill every day for a week. Participants were informed that the medicine improved mood. The extent to which they conformed to this instruction was treated as an index of compliance. Our results show that for women, but not for men, positive mood and cognitive structuring or negative mood and lack of cognitive structuring significantly predicted participants' compliance. A new model of medication adherence, based on the role of the patient's mood and cognitive structuring processes in decision making is presented in the paper.
Conflict of interest statement
Dariusz Dolinski, Barbara Dolinska and Yoram Bar-Tal all declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Kamila Madeja-Bien and Malgorzata Gamian-Wilk for their help in conducting this study.
Notes
1 For the similarity of the two constructs see: Bar-Tal, Kishon-Rabin, & Tabak, Citation1997.
2 There are empirical evidence for the effect of gender on medical compliance (Kamoltz, Citation2002; Masterson, Wildman, Newberry, & Omlor, Citation2010).