Background Lower incomes are associated with poorer mental health and wellbeing, but the
extent to which income has a causal effect is debated. We aimed to synthesise evidence …

Importance Among adults with chronic illness, 30% to 50% of medications are not taken as
prescribed. In the United States, it is estimated that medication nonadherence is associated …

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 …

Importance Compulsory admissions, defined as admissions against the will of the patient
(according to local judicial procedures), have a strong effect on psychiatric patients. In …

These updated guidelines from the British Association for Psychopharmacology replace the
original version published in 2011. They address the scope and targets of pharmacological …

BackgroundCoercive treatment comprises a broad range of practices, ranging from implicit
or explicit pressure to accept certain treatment to the use of forced practices such as …

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

Background Lithium remains first choice as maintenance treatment for bipolar affective
disorder. Yet, about half of all individuals may stop their treatment at some point, despite …

The purpose of this review is to describe research over the past 10 years on the role of
support services in promoting medication adherence in mental health consumers diagnosed …

“Compulsion” in mental health care is a reasonably straightforward notion: the use of force,
one hopes always governed by law, to make a person accept treatment that has been …