Development and Validation of a Novel Tool to Measure Medication Adherence for Noncommunicable Diseases in India: Protocol for an Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Multicentric Study

Joe Thomas   ^{1 *} , MBBS, MD ;   Maria Jose   ^{2 *} , MBBS, MD ;   Priyanka Rajmohan   ^{1 *} , MBBS, MD ;   Farah Naaz Fathima   ³ , MBBS, PGDHHM, DNB, MD ;   Hisham Moosan   ⁴ , MBBS, MD ;   Nisha K Jose   ⁵ , MBBS, DNB, MD ;   Thekkumkara Surendran Anish   ⁶ , MBBS, MD, MPhil ;   Mohan Bairwa   ⁷ , MBBS, MD ;   Tulika Goswami Mahanta   ⁸ , MBBS, MD, PhD ;   Aditi Apte   ⁹ , MBBS, MD, PhD ;   Jerin Jose Cherian   ⁵ , MBBS, MD, MBA ;   Praveenlal Kuttichira   ¹⁰ , MBBS, MD ;   Ravi Prasad Varma P   ¹¹ , MBBS, MD

¹ Department of Community Medicine, Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur, India

² Department of Pharmacology, Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur, India

³ Department of Community Medicine, St Johns Medical College, Bengaluru, India

⁴ National Institute for Implementation Research on Non-Communicable Diseases, Jodhpur, India

⁵ Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

⁶ Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Manjeri, India

⁷ Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

⁸ Department of Community Medicine, Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, India

⁹ King Edward Memorial Hospital Research Centre, Pune, India

¹⁰ Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur, India

¹¹ Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India

*these authors contributed equally