Severe mental illnesses, mainly schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, often go untreated
until the afflicted persons become dangerous to themselves or others. In such states, they …

Purpose The purpose of the study was to examine the long-term influence of involuntary
hospitalization on medication adherence, engagement in out-patient treatment and …

Increasing medication compliance in young adult chronic psychiatric patients Page 1
Medication Compliance is a familiar problem in the treatment of chronic psychiatric patients, and …

Medication noncompliance contributes significantly to recurrence of symptoms and
readmission to the hospital of schizophrenic patients. The purpose of this study was to …

Non‐compliance with antipsychotic medication is observed in around 50% of people with
schizophrenia and is a major preventable cause of psychiatric morbidity. A number of factors …

Accessible summary Although people with schizophrenia require medication to manage
symptoms such as hearing voices, most do not take it as prescribed (they are non …

Limited or erratic adherence to prescribed medication is a common problem in all chronic
medical disorders, is often covert, and is associated with poorer clinical outcomes. This …

Background: People with serious mental illness may require long-term psychotropic
medications. However, nonadherence is prevalent after discharge, often leading to re …

Objectives: Levels of agreement about medication compliance in a large cohort of seriously
mentally ill veterans and their clinicians were examined to determine whether agreement …

Karen 0rane, RN, BSN; Barbara Kirby, RN; and Denise Kooperman, RN, NP, MA, CS
sychiatric inpatients are frequently viewed as being noncompliant about taking psychotropic …