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The Treatment Acceptability/Adherence Scale: Moving Beyond the Assessment of Treatment Effectiveness

Milosevic, Irena, Levy, Hannah C., Alcolado, Gillian M., Radomsky, Adam S.·2015·Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
DOI 10.1080/16506073.2015.1053407
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It is becoming more broadly recognized that beyond effectiveness, the acceptability of interventions for anxiety disorders is an important consideration for evidence-based practice. Although advances in treatments for anxious psychopathologies have demonstrated that cognitive-behavioural interventions are more desirable than other types of psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy, there continue to be problems with adherence and dropout. It has been suggested that low treatment acceptability may be partially responsible for high dropout rates. Although a number of preliminary investigations in this domain have been conducted, further progress is hampered by the absence of a single self-report measure that assesses both acceptability and anticipated adherence. Therefore, the current paper aimed to test the psychometric properties of the newly developed Treatment Acceptability/Adherence Scale (TAAS). In two studies of brief cognitive-behavioural interventions, the TAAS was administered immediately following the therapy session. In Study 1 (N = 120 non-clinical undergraduates), the therapy included two variants of an exposure-based intervention for contamination fear. In Study 2 (N = 27 individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder), the therapy was a cognitively based intervention evaluating a novel treatment technique for checking compulsions. Measures of convergent and divergent validity were included. Results demonstrated that the TAAS exhibited sound psychometric properties across the two samples. It is hoped that this measure will help clinicians to predict and intervene when a treatment is not acceptable and/or when the client anticipates poor adherence to it. Furthermore, the TAAS may aid researchers in continuing to improve upon effective interventions for anxiety and related disorders.

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  1. O'Brien, S. & Karsh, K. (1991). Treatment acceptability: Consumer, therapist and society. In A. Repp & N. Singh (Eds.), Perspectives on the use of nonaversive and aversive interventions for persons with developmental disabilities (pp. 503–516). Sycamore, IL: Sycamore.

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Authors
Milosevic, I., Levy, H. C., Alcolado, G. M., & Radomsky, A. S.
Affiliations
  • St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (CA)
  • Concordia University (CA)
Corresponding author
Milosevic, Irena
ORCID
Venue
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2015-06-19
Volume
44
Issue
6
Pages
456-469
ISSN
  • 1650-6073 (ISSN-L)
  • 1651-2316
DOI
10.1080/16506073.2015.1053407
OpenAlex
W1518955003
Cited by
107
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1
FWCI
4.53
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (119283)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (249 833 2007)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
Keywords
treatment acceptability, medication adherence, psychometric properties, self-report measures, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, fear of contamination, exposure therapy, checking compulsions, cognitive-behavioural intervention, dropout, convergent and discriminant validity
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Female, Humans, Implosive Therapy, Male, Middle Aged, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Patient Compliance, Phobic Disorders, Psychometrics, Young Adult

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