Initial attitudes toward a drug predict medication adherence in first-episode patients with schizophrenia: a 1-year prospective study in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients' attitudes toward medication have been shown to be a predictor of nonadherence to antipsychotic treatment. However, most previous studies that explored this relationship used a cross-sectional design. It is important to explore the association of attitudes toward drugs with discontinuation at different time points during antipsychotic treatment. In this study, we investigated the association of attitudes toward drugs (measured by the Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI-10)) with adherence at seven time points (baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 26 weeks, 39 weeks, and 52 weeks) during 1 year of treatment. Factors that were potentially associated with attitudes toward drugs at the time point of interest were also studied.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Dai N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10696849 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature