Medication beliefs and perceived barriers in adolescent renal transplant patients and their parents

Understanding patient beliefs about medications and perceived barriers is important for optimal medical management. Differentiating adolescent views from parents’ perceptions would enhance care by increasing communication about regimens and reducing obstacles. This study explored beliefs about medic...

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Published in:Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, West) West), 2011-06, Vol.26 (6), p.953-959
Main Authors: Zelikovsky, Nataliya, Dobson, Tracey, Norman, Jessica
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent medicine
Asthma
Attitude to Health
Children & youth
Chronic illnesses
Demographic aspects
Demography
Drugs
Education
Families & family life
Family
Female
Health aspects
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Kidney Failure, Chronic - psychology
Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy
Kidney Transplantation - psychology
Kidney transplants
Kidneys
Male
Medicine & Public Health
Nephrology
Original Article
Parent and child
Parents
Parents & parenting
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Patient Compliance
Pediatrics
Perception
Perceptions
Psychological aspects
Social aspects
Teenagers
Transplantation
Urology
Young Adult
Youth
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Summary:Understanding patient beliefs about medications and perceived barriers is important for optimal medical management. Differentiating adolescent views from parents’ perceptions would enhance care by increasing communication about regimens and reducing obstacles. This study explored beliefs about medications and perceived barriers among 40 adolescent kidney transplant patients and their parents. Younger adolescents reported greater concern about medication harmfulness ( t (38) = 2.190, p  
ISSN:0931-041X
1432-198X
DOI:10.1007/s00467-011-1805-1