When patients' invisible work becomes visible: non-adherence and the routine task of pill-taking.

While the biographical dimensions of chronic illness have been well researched, the concrete dimensions of patients' work have not been as thoroughly investigated as yet. With the growing concern for self-management, such research would be timely. This study aims to better understand patients' invisible work by highlighting the causes of unintentional non-adherence as well as strategies for adherence. For this purpose, it defines medical treatment adherence as the repetition of the pattern of tasks through which a patient succeeds, in a technical sense, in taking the right medication at the ri... Mehr ...