Caregiver distress and medication errors in pediatric leukemia maintenance therapy Público
Stacks, Samantha (Fall 2018)
Abstract
Background and Objective: Caregivers of children with chronic illness are predisposed to increased levels of distress due to many factors including the complex nature of medication management. Our objective was to assess the relationship between caregiver distress and medication administration errors in the home in pediatric leukemia patients.
Methods: Using baseline data from participants in a prospective observational study on factors leading to medication error and injury in pediatric leukemia patients in maintenance therapy, a multivariate Poisson regression model was created to analyze the relationship between caregiver distress and the number of medication administration errors that occurred.
Results: In 34 patients, 64.71% committed at least one medication administration error and 17.65% of caregivers were categorized as distressed. Patients with more medication errors were prescribed more medications (p=0.05) and were younger in age (p=0.07). Caregiver distress was not found to be significantly associated with number of medication errors (p=0.89).
Conclusions: Medication administration errors in the home may be influenced by child age and number of medications prescribed. A larger sample size and further research is needed to determine the relationship between parental distress and medication error.
Table of Contents
Distribution Agreement 1
Abstract 4
Acknowledgements 6
Introduction 8
Methods 14
Results 20
Discussion 23
Limitations 26
Conclusions 27
Appendices 28
References 34
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