Treatment Adherence Scale Test
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Always
- Sometimes
- Never
- Always
- Sometimes
- Never
- Always
- Sometimes
- Never
Treatment Adherence Scale Test - Description and methodology of the test
For people managing an illness, this assessment offers a structured way to examine how reliably they respond to medical recommendations and what may interfere with consistency. The Treatment Adherence Scale Test is intended for people who want a clearer picture of treatment-related habits, feelings, and social motivations. As a medical adherence assessment, it organizes patterns for private reflection or discussion with a clinician.
What This Assessment Explores
Adherence differs across behavior, emotion, and social influence. Items address medication timing, instructions, planning, health worries, doctors, and relationships. This treatment adherence questionnaire indicates adherence-related patterns, not causal motives. Its scales are:
- Behavioral (0-44) measures a cautious tendency to follow medical recommendations despite doubts about necessity; Low 0-16, Moderate 17-30, High 31-44, with moderate showing prudence without consistent readiness.
- Emotional (0-44) measures adherence driven by emotional responsiveness and sensitivity; Low 0-16, Moderate 17-30, High 31-44, with moderate showing emotional instability and fluctuating adherence.
- Social (0-44) measures adherence oriented toward social approval; Low 0-15, Moderate 16-29, High 30-44, with moderate showing situational dependence on motivation and perceived personal benefit.
- Overall Treatment Adherence (0-132) measures adherence; Low 0-40, Moderate 41-80, High 81-132, with moderate showing ambivalence, varying adherence by motivation and perceived personal benefit, possible underestimation of treatment importance, and emotional instability.
Methodology and Evidence Base
In this treatment compliance test, each item offers three ordered response choices, usually Always, Sometimes, and Never, with some choices numbered 1-3. They cover adherence actions, emotional reactions, beliefs, concerns, and social motivations. Responses form three dimension scores and one overall score, but no per-response point values are stated, so the ranges cannot establish an unlisted scoring rule.
The published Level of Compliance Questionnaire (Kadyrov et al., 2014) is conceptually consistent with this questionnaire, but it is not established as the direct source of this version. Asriyan et al. (2016) describe a related testing method, and Kapustina et al. (2019) analyze its psychometric properties. The online questionnaire has no stated population norms or standardised reference beyond its displayed score bands.
Read the bands alongside current circumstances: a higher band indicates a stronger relevant tendency, while a moderate band may reflect uncertainty or variability. Self-report answers can shift with symptoms, memory, honesty, health literacy, and the clinician relationship, so the profile is best used for reflection and conversation, not as a standalone clinical conclusion.
- Kadyrov, R.V., Asriyan, O.B., & Kovalchuk, S.A. (2014). Questionnaire “Level of Compliance”: Monograph. Vladivostok: Maritime State University, 74 pp. ISBN 978-5-8343-0927-7.
- Asriyan, O.B., Kadyrov, R.V., & Vaginova, S.A. (2016). Method for psychological testing of a patient. Russian Patent RU2014143868A, published May 27, 2016.
- Kapustina, T.V., Kadyrov, R.V., & Grigorieva, E.M. (2019). Analysis of psychometric properties of the questionnaire “Level of Compliance”. Azimut of Scientific Research: Pedagogy and Psychology, 8(4(29)), 303-308. 10.26140/anip-2019-0804-0071.
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