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Adherence to treatment in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis: a cross-sectional, multi-method study investigating the influence of beliefs about treatment and parental depressive symptoms

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine, April 2015
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Title
Adherence to treatment in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis: a cross-sectional, multi-method study investigating the influence of beliefs about treatment and parental depressive symptoms
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12890-015-0038-7
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Nicola A Goodfellow, Ahmed F Hawwa, Alastair JM Reid, Rob Horne, Michael D Shields, James C McElnay

Abstract

Adherence to treatment is often reported to be low in children with cystic fibrosis. Adherence in cystic fibrosis is an important research area and more research is needed to better understand family barriers to adherence in order for clinicians to provide appropriate intervention. The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to enzyme supplements, vitamins and chest physiotherapy in children with cystic fibrosis and to determine if any modifiable risk factors are associated with adherence. A sample of 100 children (≤18 years) with cystic fibrosis (44 male; median [range] 10.1 [0.2-18.6] years) and their parents were recruited to the study from the Northern Ireland Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Centre. Adherence to enzyme supplements, vitamins and chest physiotherapy was assessed using a multi-method approach including; Medication Adherence Report Scale, pharmacy prescription refill data and general practitioner prescription issue data. Beliefs about treatments were assessed using refined versions of the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire-specific. Parental depressive symptoms were assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Using the multi-method approach 72% of children were classified as low-adherers to enzyme supplements, 59% low-adherers to vitamins and 49% low-adherers to chest physiotherapy. Variations in adherence were observed between measurement methods, treatments and respondents. Parental necessity beliefs and child age were significant independent predictors of child adherence to enzyme supplements and chest physiotherapy, but parental depressive symptoms were not found to be predictive of adherence. Child age and parental beliefs about treatments should be taken into account by clinicians when addressing adherence at routine clinic appointments. Low adherence is more likely to occur in older children, whereas, better adherence to cystic fibrosis therapies is more likely in children whose parents strongly believe the treatments are necessary. The necessity of treatments should be reinforced regularly to both parents and children.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 193 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 41 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 12%
Student > Bachelor 21 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 8%
Researcher 14 7%
Other 35 18%
Unknown 45 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 46 24%
Nursing and Health Professions 33 17%
Psychology 29 15%
Social Sciences 6 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 3%
Other 20 10%
Unknown 56 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 May 2015.
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#5,391,451
of 22,800,560 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pulmonary Medicine
#344
of 1,910 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#63,100
of 265,108 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pulmonary Medicine
#11
of 36 outputs
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