Background: Interventions to improve adherence to antipsychotic medication are needed.
The aims of the current study were to identify the most common barriers to medication …

Nonadherence with medication occurs in all chronic medical disorders. It is a particular
challenge in schizophrenia due to the illness's association with social isolation, stigma, and …

OBJECTIVE: Although nonadherence with the antipsychotic medication regimen is a
common barrier to the effective treatment for schizophrenia, knowledge is limited about how …

If an easy answer to the problem of medication nonadherence in schizophrenia existed, it
would have already been found. Despite the magnitude of the problem, in the past decade …

Nonadherence with medication treatment is common but difficult to detect in patients with
schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia, almost half of whom take less than 70% of …

Background Current practice guidelines for schizophrenia care recommend that
antipsychotic medication is essential for patients' long-term maintenance treatment but their …

Non-adherence is a major problem in the treatment of schizophrenia. Its high prevalence,
potentially severe consequences and associated costs make the study of this phenomenon …

Medication nonadherence is common among patients with schizophrenia and due to a
variety of factors including lack of insight, psychopathology, substance use disorder, issues …

Antipsychotics are the drugs prescribed to treat psychotic disorders; however, patients often
fail to adhere to their treatment, and this has a severe negative effect on prognosis in these …

The aim of this study was to identify the features of first episode schizophrenia that predict
adherence antipsychotic medication at six-month follow-up. We used validated instruments …