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Medication compliance in children

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Children of various ages and both sexes (numbering 1,004) attending the outpatient department of Conwest Jain Clinic Group of Hospitals were studied for medication compliance (MC). MC was divided into total, partial, poor and excessive. Various parameters influencing MC like acute or chronic illness, age, sex, community, income, parental education and occupation, number of children, number of family members, form of medicine and number of medicines were studied in details. Only three factors e.g. community, occupation of the father and form of medicine were found to influence MC. No single factor consistently influenced MC. Negligence and poverty play a very important role in MC.

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  1. Conwest Jain Clinic Group of Hospitals, Nikadwari Lane, Girgaum, 400 004, Bombay

    Krishnakumar N. Shah & Amita Dalal

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Shah, K.N., Dalal, A. Medication compliance in children. Indian J Pediatr 56, 645–652 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02722385

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