ArticleAcademic pediatrics
Complementary and alternative medicine use and adherence to asthma medications among Latino and non-Latino white families.
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- Racial/ethnic differences in pediatric asthma management: the importance of asthma knowledge, symptom assessment, and family-provider collaboration.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2021Observational
- Perceptions of complementary/alternative medicine use and influence on evidence-based asthma medicine adherence in Malaysian children.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2019Article
- Adherence to oral glucose lowering drugs, quality of life, treatment satisfaction and illness perception: A cross-sectional study in patients with type 2 diabetes.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2019Article
- Cultural Issues in Medication Adherence: Disparities and Directions.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Review
- An ethnographic study of salt use and humoral concepts in a Latino farm worker community in California's Central Valley.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2017Article
- Prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Usage in Vietnamese American Asthmatic Children.Clinical pediatrics · 2016Article
- Inhaled corticosteroid beliefs, complementary and alternative medicine, and uncontrolled asthma in urban minority adults.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2014Article
- The role of alternate caregivers in the management of pediatric asthma.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2014Article
- Beliefs about complementary and alternative medicine and asthma medication among Hispanic/Latinx and Black adolescents in New York City.Journal of pediatric nursingArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThe current study sought to evaluate patterns of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in a sample of Latino and non-Latino white (NLW) children with asthma to determine whether parental beliefs about conventional medications and barriers to obtaining these medications were related to CAM use and to assess whether CAM use was associated with decreased adherence to controller medications.
methodsParticipants included 574 families of children with asthma from NLW, Puerto Rican (PR), and Dominican backgrounds from Rhode Island (RI) and from Island PR. All parents completed a brief checklist of barriers to medication use and an assessment of CAM approaches. A subsample of 259 families had controller medication use monitored objectively for approximately 1 month by MDILog (fluticasone propionate), TrackCap (montelukast), or dosage counter (fluticasone/salmeterol combination).
resultsPrevalence of CAM use was high among Latino families. Perceived barriers to obtaining medication were related to increased CAM use in PR families from RI. Elevated medication concerns were positively associated with CAM use among NLW and Island PR families. CAM use was positively related to objective adherence within NLW families, and unrelated in other groups.
conclusionsCAM use is common among Latino families with asthma. Among some families, CAM use may be initiated as a way to cope with barriers to obtaining medication or when parents have concerns about conventional medications. Families who report CAM use do not appear to be substituting CAM for conventional asthma medication.
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