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What is Activia?

Activia® is a lowfat yogurt from Dannon® that contains Bifidus Regularis™, a natural probiotic culture. It is promoted as a product that regulates the digestive system by helping reduce long intestinal transit time.

Reasons used & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons used # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
General health 2 0
Constipation 2 0

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Schedules

  1 daily 1 other daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using Activia (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work
1 50% Did not seem to work: 50%
Expense
1 50% Expense: 50%
Personal research
1 50% Personal research: 50%

See all 2 patients who’ve stopped using Activia

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Using Activia

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

Stopped Using Activia

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

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
0 0%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

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

Report created on November 23, 2009.