The Profile Groups and Compliance Behaviors
Sage and Satisfied
Have confidence in doctors and traditional healthcare but accept responsibility for making and implementing decisions about their healthcare. Excellent, gratifying patients for competent clinical practices and clinical trials.
Security Seeking
Are risk adverse. Strongest belief in beneficial and destructive powers of medicine. Good clients for clinical trials administered by patient’s own doctor.
Self Starting
Are confident they can assess quality of clinicians, diagnoses, & treatments, both for themselves and others. At risk in clinical trials for noncompliance or opting out upon realizing they cannot be in control.
Uncertain and Concerned
Misunderstand clinical information. Don’t know what to report to doctor or how to ask useful questions. Compliance enhancement requires extensive effort. Adherence unreliable in clinical trials.
Spontaneous and Impulsive
View doctors as uncaring, unclear, inattentive, incompetent, and prone to overzealous testing and treatment. High noncompliance rates. Poor candidate for clinical trials.
Vigilant and Suspicious
Have lowest opinion of healthcare system. Mistrust ability and motivation of clinicians and see themselves more capable of managing their healthcare. Compliance is likely to be poor in any clinical environment and in clinical trials.
