NIH R01 · 2025
Behavioral Parenting Skills as a Novel Target for Improving Pediatric Medication Adherence
In pediatric health care non-adherence to medications is a significant driver of avoidable suffering and death. Over half of children do not adhere to prescribed medications, and non-adherence is the leading cause of treatment failure in pediatrics. Non-adherence can lead to worsening illness, death, preventable hospitalization, increased health care cost, and morbidity. Even in pediatric cancer, when the consequences of non-adherence to chemotherapy are potentially life threatening, over 40% of patients have clinically significant non-adherence. For the most common pediatric cancer, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), children who miss just 10% of chemotherapy doses have a nearly 4-fold…
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