Preliminary feasibility and efficacy of text messaging and application-based adherence interventions in adolescents with epilepsy.

Objective: Few interventions have been developed to improve treatment adherence in adolescents with epilepsy. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility and acceptability of text messaging and application-based interventions to improve adolescent antiepileptic drug adherence. It was hypothesized that these interventions would improve adherence and would be feasible and acceptable to adolescents and their caregivers.

Development of the PedsQL™ Epilepsy Module: Focus group and cognitive interviews.

Unlabelled: Youth with epilepsy have impaired health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Existing epilepsy-specific HRQOL measures are limited by not having parallel self- and parent-proxy versions, having a restricted age range, not being inclusive of children with developmental disabilities, or being too lengthy for use in a clinical setting. Generic HRQOL measures do not adequately capture the idiosyncrasies of epilepsy.

A pilot randomized controlled clinical trial to improve antiepileptic drug adherence in young children with epilepsy.

The primary aim was to examine the preliminary efficacy of a family tailored problem-solving intervention to improve antiepileptic drug (AED) adherence in families of children with new-onset epilepsy. Secondary aims were to assess changes in targeted mechanisms and treatment feasibility and acceptability. Fifty families (M(age) = 7.

How poorer quality of life in adolescence predicts subsequent type 1 diabetes management and control.

Objective: Detriments in quality of life (QOL) may contribute to the common, costly decline in adolescents' type 1 diabetes management and control, yet we know little about how this might happen.

Methods: Participants were 150 adolescents (age 13-18) with type 1 diabetes and their parents. We constructed a latent QOL variable from a multi-informant, multi-domain assessment when participants entered the study.