Self Medication Among Psychiatric Patients and Adherence After Discharge

The attitude of 50 hospitalized persons with schizophrenia toward taking their medication was examined. Both open-ended and fixed-response estimates of attitude were made. Insight also was measured, and the relationships between insight and attitude and between hallucinations and insight were analyzed. Patients were able to provide information about beliefs and feelings about taking medication and about insight toward illness and treatment. Attitudes varied, and both strongly positive and strongly negative beliefs about taking medication were held simultaneously. Some of the implications for nursing are explained.

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Attitudes of patients with schizophrenia toward taking medication

Davidhizar

Austin

McBride

1986

Research in Nursing & Health

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The effects of a psychiatric patient education to medication program on post-discharge compliance

Robinson¹,

Gilbertson²,

Litwack³

1986

Psych Quart

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The effect of a structured program of education on subsequent psychiatric patient compliance with medication-taking was investigated. The subjects consisted of 150 hospitalized patients housed on four acute-care receiving wards and ready for discharge from Fallsview Psychiatric Hospital in Ohio. They were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Results indicated that subjects who received written information with verbal reinforcement were significantly more compliant than the control subjects. These findings suggest that, if the hand-out is discussed with them, the patients given medication handouts similar to those used in the study will comply with medication-taking after discharge at a higher rate than those given no hand-out. Implications of these findings for increased psychiatric patients' post-discharge compliance with medications are discussed.

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The evaluations of drug information programs

Lilja

1985

Social Science & Medicine

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Self Medication Among Psychiatric Patients and Adherence After Discharge

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Attitudes of patients with schizophrenia toward taking medication

Attitudes of patients with schizophrenia toward taking medication

The effects of a psychiatric patient education to medication program on post-discharge compliance

The evaluations of drug information programs

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