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Objective This meta-analysis investigated whether beliefs in the necessity and concerns of medicine and the necessity–concerns differential are correlated with medication adherence on a population level and in different conditions. Methods An electronic search of Web of Science, EMBASE, PubMed and CINAHL was conducted for manuscripts utilising the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire and comparing it to any measure of medication adherence. Studies were pooled using the random-effects model to produce a mean overall effect size correlation. Studies were stratified for condition, adherence measure, power and study design. Results Ninety-four papers were included in the meta-analysis. The overall effect size(r) for necessity, concerns, and necessity–concerns differential was 0.17, -0.18 and 0.24 respectively and these were all significant (p
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