Predicting Medication Compliance in a Psychotic Population

Adherence to Medication Regimens and Participation in Dual-Focus Self-Help Groups

“…This finding is similar to those of several previous studies, which found that better adherence was associated with perceptions of symptom relief (40,41), and fewer symptoms were associated with more positive attitudes toward adherence (42). These findings suggest that a perception of benefits from adherence encourages adherence, which is consistent with social learning models of health behavior, such as the health belief model (43).…”

What’s in a name? Compliance, adherence and concordance in chronic psychiatric disorders

“…Over the years, socio-demographic, treatment-related and diseaserelated factors have been considered to be the primary Chakrabarti S. Compliance, adherence and concordance determinants of non-compliance/non-adherence, but the role played by these factors in determining non-compliance/non-adherence has been uncertain. Moreover, these factors do not seem to predict the presence of noncompliance/non-adherence with a reasonable degree of certainty [1,4,15,17,19,21,22,[33][34][35]39,[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] . On the other hand, the patient's perspective on medication-taking, which is a key component of compliance/adherence behaviour, was neglected by research in this area for a long time.…”

“…From the patient's perspective, compliance/adherence, or non-compliance/non-adherence is often a considered decision by people making their own choices about the benefits and disadvantages of treatment, based on their own beliefs, their personal circumstances, and the information available to them. The complete list of such patient-related factors has been presented in several reviews of the subject [1,3,4,6,8,9,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]25,26,[33][34][35][37][38][39][40][42][43][44][45] . They include factors such as patients' beliefs and attitudes towards medication taking, attitudes and support of their caregivers, perceived efficacy and side effects of treatment, patients' knowledge about the illness, its causes and treatment, barriers to compliance/adherence such as costs of treatment or inadequate access, the clinician-patient relationship, patients' quality of life, their satisfaction with and acceptability of treatment, and many others.…”

“…They include factors such as patients' beliefs and attitudes towards medication taking, attitudes and support of their caregivers, perceived efficacy and side effects of treatment, patients' knowledge about the illness, its causes and treatment, barriers to compliance/adherence such as costs of treatment or inadequate access, the clinician-patient relationship, patients' quality of life, their satisfaction with and acceptability of treatment, and many others. Different theoretical approaches incorporating these factors and the mechanisms underlying them have been utilized to understand medication-taking behaviour [1,4,6,7,9,21,22,34,38,39,[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] . Examples of these include the health-belief model, the social-cognitive theory, the theory of planned behaviour (and its precursor, the theory of reasoned action), the selfregulation theory, and the protection-motivation theory.…”

Factors Associated With Drug Non-Adherence After Discharge Among Patients With Mood Disorders Hospitalized in Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Kerman: A Prospective Study

“…Poor drug adherence is a major problem in all fields of medicine and psychiatry is not an exception [2]. Drug non adherence has a major role in relapse and rehospitalization [3]. Patients with mood disorders including major depressive disorder and bipolar mood disorder are a major part of psychiatric patients.…”