Longitudinal Patterns of Mexican and Puerto Rican Children's Asthma Controller Medication Adherence and Acute Healthcare Use.

ABSTRACT: Rationale: Researchers tend to study Latinos as a single group, but recent asthma research confirmed differences among Latino subgroups. Variations in controller medication adherence may be a factor in the observed health disparities between Mexican and Puerto Rican children. Adherence is not a stable phenomenon; however, there is a paucity of data on patterns of adherence, sociodemographic predictors of patterns, and variations in asthma-related acute healthcare use by adherence pattern among Latino subgroups. Objectives: To identify patterns of inhaled corticosteroid medication adherence over 12 months among Mexican and Puerto Rican children with persistent asthma, to examine sociodemographic predictors of adherence patterns by ethnicity, and to investigate asthma-related a

SUBMITTER: Arcoleo KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6543480 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature