ABSTRACT
One of the most daunting challenges facing health care providers and researchers is
assisting families and children to adhere to recommendations for managing acute and
chronic conditions. Despite varying rates of non-adherence across conditions and
components of management, a conservative estimate is about 50% underuse of
medications and even lower rates of non-adherence to recommendations other than
medication (Riekert & Drotar, 2000), such as behavioral changes.
