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Intervention

That’s Gross!: Strategies to improve medication compliance and palatability

Friday, June 16, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
Location: Tate 2-3
PDUs 1.0 PDUs
Convincing children to take unpleasant tasting medication can be challenging for child life specialists.
Presenters will discuss various methods to address poor compliance with unpalatable medications and ways to promote pill swallowing. Participants will have an opportunity to sample medications and experience tools used to improve or mitigate foul tastes.

DOMAIN: Intervention

Objectives:

  • Describe the 5 basic tastes and other components of palatability that can affect medication compliance
  • Discuss various options to improve patient compliance with unpalatable medications
  • Explain techniques to promote pill swallowing in pediatric patients