title: Demographic and medical predictors of medication compliance among ethnically different pediatric renal transplant patients.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. Fenners@Peds.UFL.edu
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Fennell
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tucker
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pedersen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D002102:Cadaver; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000208:ethnology*; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*