Impact of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment on Medication Adherence in Youth With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

• Published in: Arthritis care & research (2010) Vol. 73; no. 1; pp. 30 - 38
• Main Authors: Chang, Joyce C., Davis, Alaina M., Klein‐Gitelman, Marisa S., Cidav, Zuleyha, Mandell, David S., Knight, Andrea M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Age Factors; Antirheumatic Agents - therapeutic use; Anxiety; Child; Child Behavior; Comorbidity; Databases, Factual; Diagnosis; Female; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Hydroxychloroquine; Hydroxychloroquine - therapeutic use; Lupus; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic - diagnosis; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic - drug therapy; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic - epidemiology; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic - psychology; Male; Medical diagnosis; Medication Adherence; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Mental Disorders - diagnosis; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Mental Disorders - psychology; Mental Disorders - therapy; Patient compliance; Psychotherapy; Psychotropic drugs; Regression analysis; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Systemic lupus erythematosus; United States - epidemiology; Young Adult; United States
• ISSN: 2151-464X; 2151-4658; 2151-4658
• DOI: 10.1002/acr.24450

Objective Youth with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) experience high rates of psychiatric comorbidities, which may affect medication adherence. We undertook this study to examine the association between psychiatric disorders and hydroxychloroquine adherence and to determine whether psychiatric tr...