2.9. Data collection
’s behavior
Data collection was carried out by qualified interviewers that attended to the Good Clinical Practices course (Instruments validated in the Brazilian reality were used, such as the MGLT [“The extent to which a person’s behavior ‐ taking medication, following a diet and / or making lifestyle changes ‐ corresponds to the recommendations agreed with a caregiver” [The MGLT has four questions, and those who answered “no” to all questions were considered adherent, whereas those who answered “yes” to at least one question, were classified as non-adherent. When one or two questions were answered affirmatively, the respondent’s behavior was classified as moderately adherent. An affirmative answer to three or four questions was classified as having low adherence. When answering affirmatively to the first two questions of the MGLT, the behavior was considered “unintentional”, when answering affirmatively to the last two questions of the MGLT, the behavior was considered “intentional” [For participants’ health-related QoL assessment, the Brazil Short Form Health Survey 36 (SF-36) was used [The Lichtiger Index [