Poor medication adherence and depression interfere with the management of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, especially adolescent and young adult patients. For patients for whom clinic visits and education programs fail to improve adherence, novel social media-based interventions are demonstrating the ability to increase patient agency, self-efficacy, and adherence.
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Sadun, R.E., Schanberg, L.E. Using social media to promote medication adherence. Nat Rev Rheumatol 14, 445–446 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-018-0037-1
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