Improving Participant Adherence in Clinical Research of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Table 1

Table of factors related to participant compliance.

1	Forget
2	State of illness is controlled
3	Long course of treatment
4	High cost
5	Unblinding
6	Unwillingness of taking medicine
7	ADR
8	Complexity of instruction for taking medicine
9	Lack of correct understanding to disease
10	Lack of correct understanding to risk return
11	Ignore the disease
12	Low work satisfaction of doctor
13	Important event
14	Psychogeny
15	Improper follow-up plan
16	Difficulty in taking medicine
17	Unsure about treatment
18	Bad doctor-patient relationship
19	Difficult to care for some patients (the disabled, schizophrenic, et al.)
20	Asymptomatic disease
21	Complex description for medication
22	Difficult to get the medicine
23	Not familiar with the drug price
24	No reason