Attention difficulties are associated with lower engagement in adult care amongst youth with sickle cell disease

Br J Haematol. 2020 Apr;189(1):e27-e30. doi: 10.1111/bjh.16421. Epub 2020 Feb 26.

Authors

Jeanelle S Ali¹, Frank Andrasik², Kristoffer S Berlin², Jerlym Porter¹, Jane Hankins³, Sheila Anderson³, Jane E Schreiber^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Psychology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
² Psychology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.
³ Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
⁴ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

PMID: 32103490
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.16421

No abstract available

Keywords: adolescents; attention; executive functioning; sickle cell disease; transfer.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Anemia, Sickle Cell* / complications
Anemia, Sickle Cell* / epidemiology
Anemia, Sickle Cell* / physiopathology
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity* / epidemiology
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity* / etiology
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity* / physiopathology
Attention*
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Infant
Male
Prospective Studies