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Morisky Medication Adherence Scale
  • Basic Information
  • Detailed Information
  • Domains
  • Psychometrics

Basic Information

Abbreviated name
MMAS-8
Full name
Morisky Medication Adherence Scale
Items ?
The number of questions in the survey
4
Short description
A brief, commonly used, easily administered questionnaire to assess medication adherence in chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, or heart failure.
PCCC or QoL? ?
This compendium contains patient-reported measures that are either designed to specifically measure aspects of Person Centred Co-Ordinated Care (P3C), or alternatively tools that are designed to measure some aspect of Quality of Life (QoL) or Health Related Quality of Life (hrQoL). All the measures in this compendium have been broadly categorised into one of those two concepts.
Person Centred Coordinated Care
Main Domains Measured ?
This is the key domains that the measure is targeting.
Medication adherence
Type of measure ?
The measures in this compendium can take a variety of forms. Generally, they will be either Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) or Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM). However, we have also included a few measures that are completed by proxy-individual (PROXY), which are useful in instances where the respondent cannot answer directly (e.g. dementia or end of life). Sometimes, these measures can even be a composite of these types, and target both experiences and outcomes – we have labelled these measures “PROEMs”.
PROM
Respondent ?
The person that fills in the questionnaire - e.g. patient, Health Care Professional, or proxy (normally a carer or family member)
Patients
Copy of questionnaire
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.aparx.org/resource/resmgr/Handouts/Morisky_Medication_Adherence.pdf

Detailed Information

Year developed ?
The year in which the measure was first published.
1986
Country developed in ?
The main country[s] in which the measure was first developed.
US
Original publication ?
The publication in which the measure was originally published.
Search Citations of Original Reference
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21264184
Website link ?
A link to the developer of the measure, if they have a website.
http://dmorisky.bol.ucla.edu/MMAS_scale.html
Target condition ?
The measures can be either generic or disease specific (e.g. Diabetes, Heart Failure)
Long term conditions
Main context tested in ?
The main context in which the measure has been developed and used (E.g. Hopital, General Practice etc).
Self-management in chronic conditions
Main countries used in ?
The main countries in which the measure has been developed and used.
US
Target age ?
e.g. Adults, Children, Elderly
Adults
Main uses of measure ?
The context in which the measure is most often used – e.g. clinical trials; national surveys.
Chronic conditions
Used in UK? ?
Whether the instrument has been tested and validated within a UK healthcare context.
Yes
Impact ?
A crude indication of the impact of the measure on academia. This is the number of times the original publication has been cited on PubMed, divided/normalised to the years since publication.
20.13333333
Language
English
Official translations
Numerous translations
Other versions available
4 and 8 item versions available

Domains

Domain description
Self-management of medication

Psychometrics

Brief description ?
A brief description of the initially reported psychometric properties of the measure.
Psychometrics have been independently evaluated. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26130465