2.7 Adherence levels to inhaled steroids in children with asthma when recorded electronically As described above, when many studies have recorded adherence levels to preventer inhalers in children, the methods used are often subjective, and therefore potentially inaccurate. Recent studies which have recorded adherence electronically can give us an objective indication of adherence levels in the paediatric asthma population. Table 2 pools the adherence data from these studies. Trials were found by searching the Pubmed database for the period January 1980 to October 2013 with the terms adherence/compliance and asthma and electronic and monitoring. The search was repeated with the same terms and the table updated in May 2016. Other studies were identified from reference lists from these studies. Studies were included if they were monitoring adherence only in children (aged <18). Where the trials involve an adherence intervention, only the control arm rates or rates at baseline are quoted. Studies were rejected if they looked at rates in populations which were already shown to be non-adherent. The mean rate of adherence is the overall rate of adherence for the whole duration of the respective studies. If multiple adherence rates were recorded over time, the mean of these rates has been calculated. Table 2 Adherence rates to inhaled corticosteroids when measured electronically
2.7 Adherence levels to inhaled steroids in children with asthma when recorded electronically As described above, when many studies have recorded adherence levels to preventer inhalers in children, the methods used are often subjective, and therefore potentially inaccurate. Recent studies which have recorded adherence electronically can give us an objective indication of adherence levels in the paediatric asthma population. Table 2 pools the adherence data from these studies. Trials were found by searching the Pubmed database for the period January 1980 to October 2013 with the terms adherence/compliance and asthma and electronic and monitoring. The search was repeated with the same terms and the table updated in May 2016. Other studies were identified from reference lists from these studies. Studies were included if they were monitoring adherence only in children (aged <18). Where the trials involve an adherence intervention, only the control arm rates or rates at baseline are quoted. Studies were rejected if they looked at rates in populations which were already shown to be non-adherent. The mean rate of adherence is the overall rate of adherence for the whole duration of the respective studies. If multiple adherence rates were recorded over time, the mean of these rates has been calculated. Table 2 Adherence rates to inhaled corticosteroids when measured electronically
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