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Title: | Predictors and consequences of adherence to the treatment of pediatric patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in Central Europe and East Asia. |
Author: | Hong, Jihyung Novick, Diego Treuer, Tamas Montgomery, William Haynes, Virginia S. Wu, Shenghu Haro Abad, Josep Maria |
Keywords: | Trastorns per dèficit d'atenció amb hiperactivitat en els infants Assaigs clínics Àsia Europa central Attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity in children Clinical trials Asia Central Europe |
Issue Date: | 30-Sep-2013 |
Publisher: | Dove Medical Press |
Abstract: | PURPOSE: To assess baseline predictors and consequences of medication non-adherence in the treatment of pediatric patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from Central Europe and East Asia. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Data for this post-hoc analysis were taken from a 1-year prospective, observational study that included a total of 1,068 newly-diagnosed pediatric patients with ADHD symptoms from Central Europe and East Asia. Medication adherence during the week prior to each visit was assessed by treating physicians using a 5-point Likert scale, and then dichotomized into either adherent or non-adherent. Clinical severity was measured by the Clinical Global Impressions-ADHD-Severity (CGI-ADHD) scale and the Child Symptom Inventory-4 (CSI-4) Checklist. Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) was measured using the Child Health and Illness Profile-Child Edition (CHIP-CE). Regression analyses were used to assess baseline predictors of overall adherence during follow-up, and the impact of time-varying adherence on subsequent outcomes: response (defined as a decrease of at least 1 point in CGI), changes in CGI-ADHD, CSI-4, and the five dimensions of CHIP-CE. RESULTS: Of the 860 patients analyzed, 64.5% (71.6% in Central Europe and 55.5% in East Asia) were rated as adherent and 35.5% as non-adherent during follow-up. Being from East Asia was found to be a strong predictor of non-adherence. In East Asia, a family history of ADHD and parental emotional distress were associated with non-adherence, while having no other children living at home was associated with non-adherence in Central Europe as well as in the overall sample. Non-adherence was associated with poorer response and less improvement on CGI-ADHD and CSI-4, but not on CHIP-CE. CONCLUSION: Non-adherence to medication is common in the treatment of ADHD, particularly in East Asia. Non-adherence was associated with poorer response and less improvement in clinical severity. A limitation of this study is that medication adherence was assessed by the treating clinician using a single item question. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S50628 |
It is part of: | Patient Preference And Adherence, 2013, vol. 7, p. 987-995 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/65618 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S50628 |
ISSN: | 1177-889X |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Clínica i Psicobiologia) |
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