“ We wish to find out why and why not children take their medicine and use this information to develop a tool allowing health professionals to work together with children and parents and carers to improve the medicine they are prescribed. A very important element of the study is to gain views from a number of different perspectives i.e from parents/carers, health professionals and children themselves
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A spoonful of sugar? The article antipcipates a study looking at medication adhderence by children. From abstract: The 21-month study involving health specialists at The University of Nottingham and The University of Leicester will draw on the experiences of school children with asthma, diabetes, congenital heart disease and epilepsy to learn about the barriers that prevent them from taking medicines prescribed for them.
Quote is from Dr Monica Lakhanpaul, Community Paediatrician and Senior Lecturer in Child Health at The University of Leicester.
