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PubMed1993

Failure to have prescriptions filled among Black elderly.

Despite extensive research on drug consumption and compliance with drug regimens within the geriatric population, little attention has been given to the failure to have prescriptions filled among elderly in general and Black elderly in particular. The prevalence and correlates of patients' failure to have prescriptions filled were investigated for a sample of 571 Black elderly. In terms of prevalence, 12.8% of this sample asserted that they had received a prescription from a physician and not had it filled during the 6 months period prior to interview. Multivariate logistic regression was employed to detect the significant predictors of this type of noncompliance. According to our data, failure to have prescriptions filled was significantly greater among Black elderly with higher levels of anxiety, those with lower levels of internal health locus of control, those who did not have prescription medication coverage through Medicaid, those who were currently using prescription medications, those who consumed greater numbers of over-the-counter medications, and those who reported more financial problems. Implications of these findings are discussed.

Black or African American↗

PubMed1987

Encoding and memory of explicit and implicit information.

The usefulness of a general capacity model for predicting age differences in memory for critical information in text was assessed. Passages that either explicitly stated or implied, in either a predictable or unpredictable manner, a fact central to understanding were read to study participants. No age differences were obtained in the recall of explicit central facts, but the younger adults outperformed the older adults when these facts had to be inferred. A revised capacity model, which implicates encoding processes in the breakdown of inference formation, is outlined to account for these and other data.

Adolescent↗