Table 4 Examples of caregivers’ verbal explanations of the five CareCAT descriptors
Swallows well |
- Observing the act of swallowing the medicine ‘[I see that she] drinks the medicine and swallows’ |
- Ingesting the medicine in absence of negative behaviors ‘He swallows and does not give me a hard time’ |
Refusal |
- Defensive behavior preventing the intake of medicine ‘By pushing the spoon’ or ‘fights with her hands’ or ‘turns away her head’ |
- Defensive behavior reversing the intake of medicine ‘She cries, moves her body and then vomits’ |
Spitting |
- Forcing the medicine out actively ‘He spits or maybe blows the medicine out’ |
- Medicine passively leaving the mouth (‘overflow’ or ‘spilling’) ‘When the medicines runs down the mouth’ |
Vomiting |
- ‘She takes out the medicine after feeling nauseous, then vomits it with food’ |
Medication not taken |
- No oral intake of medicine ‘She does not want [to take the medicine] until the medicine did not get in [the mouth]’ |
- Intake without ingesting ‘I have tried to give her but [the medicine] was still not swallowed’ |