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What is Friends?

The support and presence of family and friends during illness can be quite valuable, even essential, to an overall feeling of well-being.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Increase effect of another treatment 14 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
General health 13 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Other 8 0
Depressed mood 7 0
Frustration 5 1 Efficacy_major
Pain 4 1 Efficacy_moderate

See all 57 patients currently using Friends

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 9

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Using Friends

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Friends

Always
 5 56%
Usually
 2 22%
Sometimes
 2 22%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Friends

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 1 11%
A little
 1 11%
Not at all
 7 78%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Friends

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 4 100%

Report created on May 24, 2012.