TY - JOUR
T1 - Are health beliefs related to adherence among adolescents with mood disorders?
AU - Munson, Michelle R.
AU - Floersch, Jerry E.
AU - Townsend, Lisa
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This study was funded by a grant from the Ohio Board of Regents to Dr. Michelle Munson (SPN00623). The study was also funded, in part, by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (K MH068584 A1) to Dr. Jerry Floersch. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers whose thoughtful comments improved the manuscript.
Funding Information:
This study was developed in collaboration with a project funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (K08 MH 68584) aimed at developing qualitative methods to understand the subjective experience of adolescents taking psychotropic medications (Floersch et al. 2009).
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This study explored the illness perceptions, attitudes towards mental health services and adherence behaviors among a group of adolescents in treatment for mood disorders in an urban city in the United States. Seventy adolescents completed a battery of questionnaires assessing demographics (e.g., gender, family income), perceptions of illness (e.g., consequences, treatment control) and overall attitudes towards mental health services. Adolescents and their parents also reported on the youth's adherence to both psychotropic medication and mental health appointments. Simultaneous logistic regression analyses revealed that attitudes and family income made a significant and unique contribution in explaining adolescents' adherence behaviors. Interventions that help adolescents become aware of their attitudes toward mental health services and provide information on dimensions of mood disorders, such as the chronic nature of depression and the effectiveness of treatment, may impact adherence behavior. Also, among a group of families with access to services, yearly family income remained a significant barrier to attending appointments all of the time. Policy implications are discussed.
AB - This study explored the illness perceptions, attitudes towards mental health services and adherence behaviors among a group of adolescents in treatment for mood disorders in an urban city in the United States. Seventy adolescents completed a battery of questionnaires assessing demographics (e.g., gender, family income), perceptions of illness (e.g., consequences, treatment control) and overall attitudes towards mental health services. Adolescents and their parents also reported on the youth's adherence to both psychotropic medication and mental health appointments. Simultaneous logistic regression analyses revealed that attitudes and family income made a significant and unique contribution in explaining adolescents' adherence behaviors. Interventions that help adolescents become aware of their attitudes toward mental health services and provide information on dimensions of mood disorders, such as the chronic nature of depression and the effectiveness of treatment, may impact adherence behavior. Also, among a group of families with access to services, yearly family income remained a significant barrier to attending appointments all of the time. Policy implications are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10488-009-0255-6
DO - 10.1007/s10488-009-0255-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 19937108
AN - SCOPUS:79952111101
SN - 0894-587X
VL - 37
SP - 408
EP - 416
JO - Administration and Policy in Mental Health
JF - Administration and Policy in Mental Health
IS - 5
ER -