Research For Better Health Outcomes
The Center for Adherence and Self-Management combines clinical and translational research to help children, adolescents and young adults achieve better health outcomes by improving their skills in managing their conditions and following their providers’ treatment recommendations.
Our team and their research labs study and develop new behavioral interventions and technologies to help patients with chronic conditions—like asthma, cancer, epilepsy, headaches, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes and sickle cell disease—who need medication or other treatments for a long period of time.
As the nation’s first and only pediatric center focused on adherence and self-management across conditions, our advanced research and training programs address topics of national significance. Our psychologists, residents and postdoctoral fellows collaborate with many clinical care teams, physicians, biostatisticians, social workers and other specialists, such as technologists, designers, epidemiologists and health economists.
Our Research
Patients achieve better outcomes when they have the knowledge and skills to manage their conditions in collaboration with their providers and when they closely follow treatment plans. Our work focuses on measuring and improving treatment adherence and self-management behavior for a wide range of conditions.
Our researchers take these key steps:
- Develop and test new interventions aimed at improving self-management and, consequently, health outcomes.
- Measure adherence and identify barriers to taking medications or receiving treatments.
- Create digital health applications and remote patient monitoring devices that help patients manage their condition better and help healthcare providers by providing new data that allows them to provide better care.
- Test mobile health technologies and telehealth interventions to create personalized treatment plans for patients.
The Center shares our evidence-based findings by leading institutional, national, and international adherence and self-management initiatives that foster interdisciplinary collaborations.
Research By the Numbers
The behavioral health scientists at Cincinnati Children’s are highly successful at securing grant support for their work and publishing their results in top scientific journals. Our research team and faculty members regularly secure research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), industry, and public and private foundations. Research in the Center has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since it opened in 2007.
