Measuring adherence to treatment of paediatric HIV/AIDS.
Parent, child, physician report and pill counts were used to measure adherence in paediatric HIV. Relationships to viral load were assessed. Pill counts were considered invalid. Adherence measures did not correlate with one another. Physicians reported lower adherence than parents, but parent and physician report correlated with viral load. The clinical and research utility of the various measures are discussed.
Naar-King
S
S
Wayne State University, USA. snaarkin@med.wayne.edu
Frey
M
M
Harris
M
M
Arfken
C
C
D000293:Adolescent; D019380:Anti-HIV Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010349:Patient Compliance; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D019562:Viral Load
D019380:Anti-HIV Agents