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Demographic and medical predictors of medication compliance among ethnically different pediatric renal transplant patients
Author(s) -
Fennell Robert S.,
Tucker Carolyn,
Pedersen Tyler
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
pediatric transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1399-3046
pISSN - 1397-3142
DOI - 10.1034/j.1399-3046.2001.00027.x
Subject(s) - medicine , renal transplant , dialysis , compliance (psychology) , pill , african american , ethnically diverse , medication adherence , transplantation , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , population , environmental health , psychology , social psychology , ethnology , pharmacology , history
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.