Does the patients take their medicine regularly?

SAYGIN N., BULDUKOĞLU K.

KLINIK PSIKOFARMAKOLOJI BULTENI-BULLETIN OF CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, cilt.19, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 19
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Dergi Adı: KLINIK PSIKOFARMAKOLOJI BULTENI-BULLETIN OF CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Medication adherence, psyco-pharmacologic therapy, pschiatric patient, patient's relative
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Introduction: Medication is the commonly used method of therapy in psychiatry. As noncompliance with medication necessitates repeated hospitalizations, this raises an annoyance both for the patients and their families. Therefore, it is important to determine of how the patients are using their medication and the reasons of inordinate medication usage from both the patients' and their relatives' points of view.