New Caregiver Diagnoses of Severe Depression and Child Asthma Controller Medication Adherence.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Children with asthma who have depressed caregivers are known to be less adherent to medication regimes. However, it is less clear how adherence responds to a caregiver's new diagnosis of severe depression or whether there is a similar relationship with other serious caregiver diagnoses. The hypothesis is that adherence worsens both with new diagnoses of depression and possibly with new diagnoses of other serious conditions.

Methods

This study follows a cohort of 341,444 continuously insured children with asthma before and after a caregiver's new diagnosis of severe depression or another serious health condition. The effect of a new depression diagnosis on a child's medication adherence is compared to the effect of new diagnoses of other common careg

SUBMITTER: Currie JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10252375 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature