Leslie R. Martin

TL;DR: Knowing the patient as a person allows the health professional to understand elements that are crucial to the patient's adherence: beliefs, attitudes, subjective norms, cultural context, social supports, and emotional health challenges, particularly depression.

TL;DR: Psychosocial factors emerged as important risks for premature mortality and statistical survival analyses were used to predict longevity and cause of death as a function of parental divorce during childhood, unstable marriage patterns in adulthood, childhood personality, adult adjustment, and possible mediating health behaviors.

TL;DR: A clinically useful three-factor heuristic model is validates and reflects the realities of medical practice and offers recommendations for assessing and enhancing patient adherence, particularly in chronic disease management.

TL;DR: Survition analyses suggest that the protective effect of conscientiousness is not primarily due to accident avoidance and cannot be mostly explained by abstinence from unhealthy substance intake, and that conscientiousness may have more wide-ranging effects on health-relevant activities.

TL;DR: It is revealed that conscientiousness, measured independently in childhood and adulthood, predicted mortality risk across the full life span and point to conscientiousness as a key underexplored area for future biopsychosocial studies.