Demographic and medical predictors of medication compliance among ethnically different pediatric renal transplant patients.

Autor: Fennell RS; Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. Fenners@Peds.UFL.edu, Tucker C, Pedersen T
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Pediatric transplantation [Pediatr Transplant] 2001 Oct; Vol. 5 (5), pp. 343-8.
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3046.2001.00027.x
Abstrakt: Medication adherence in African-American and European-American pediatric renal transplant recipients was evaluated by four separate measures. Demographic and medical factors were analyzed. Based on pill count/refill history, European-American females were more compliant than their male counterparts. Based on self-ratings of compliance, African-American recipients were more compliant if they had vs. had not had dialysis experience prior to their transplant. These recipients also had higher self-ratings of compliance if their donors were cadaveric rather than living related.
Databáze: MEDLINE