Treatment adherence among low-income, African American children with persistent asthma.

Objective: The study aims to assess medication adherence and asthma management behaviors and their modifiable predictors in low-income children with persistent asthma.

Methods: The authors conducted a cohort study of 143 children ages 6 to 11 prescribed a daily inhaled controller medicine that could be electronically monitored. Children were recruited from clinics or the emergency department of an urban children's hospital.

Family Evaluation Clinic: Training Psychiatrists to Think Systemically.

A family evaluation training program, Family Evaluation Clinic (FEC), was conducted in an outpatient child psychiatry clinic serving a low-income, African-American, urban population. To determine the success of the program in meeting its training goals, the authors reviewed patient attendance rates and collected survey data from trainees who participated in evaluations conducted between 1994 and 2000. Patient attendance rates were high, and trainees indicated that the program was helpful and valuable to them in their current practice.