title: The interactive effect of parent personality and medication knowledge on adherence in children awaiting solid organ transplantation.
abstract: The study aimed to examine parent personality factors as predictors of parent medication knowledge and parent-report of child medication adherence.
  
  
  
  Seventy-eight parents (Mage = 37.68, 87.2% female) of children (Mage = 8.89, range: 0-20 years) undergoing evaluation for a solid organ transplant were recruited. Parents completed questionnaires about their personality, knowledge of their child's medications, and their child's level of medication adherence.
  
  
  
  Greater time since the child's diagnosis predicted lower levels of medication knowledge, while higher levels of Neuroticism and Extraversion predicted greater levels of medication knowledge. Greater medication knowledge predicted greater levels of medication adherence, with this effect being moderated by conscientiousness. Children of parents with low knowledge and low conscientiousness had the lowest levels of adherence.
  
  
  
  Parent personality is significantly related to medication knowledge and children's adherence prior to transplant. As parent personality is theoretically stable, Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E), and Conscientiousness (C) serve as risk and protective factors that may influence medication knowledge and adherence even after transplantation. Parent medication knowledge and adherence are modifiable factors that would be appropriate targets for intervention during the pretransplant period. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-1334-7671
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Georgia.
authors.forename: Cyd K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Eaton
authors.affiliation: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Loiselle Rich
authors.affiliation: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
authors.forename: Bonney
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Reed-Knight
authors.affiliation: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
authors.forename: Rochelle S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Liverman
authors.affiliation: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
authors.forename: Laura L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Mee
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Georgia.
authors.forename: Ana M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gutierrez-Colina
authors.affiliation: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
authors.forename: Rene
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Romero
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Georgia.
authors.forename: Ronald L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Blount
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult; D016903:Drug Monitoring