Reported Rates of Adherence to Medication Prescribed for Adolescents’ Symptoms of ADHD
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Clinicians frequently describe incomplete adherence to stimulant medication as a limitation to the effectiveness of treating ADHD in adolescents. This study examined reported adherence among 44 adolescents prescribed medication for symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Reports of medication adherence were obtained from adolescents and parents at two time points, approximately two months apart. Parent and adolescent reports indicated reasonable agreement, with parents and adolescents reporting high rates of adherence at both time points (medians ranged from 85 to 89% adherence). A small group of adolescents reported extremely low rates of adherence, but we were not able to distinguish this group from the remainder of the sample based on demographics. It is argued that the sample is generally representative of adolescents who are being prescribed medication for ADHD, and that the high adherence rates are valid. These findings imply that clinicians treating adolescents with ADHD should be cautious in assuming that medication adherence is an inevitable problem in this population.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.022 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".