Measuring adherence to antipsychotic medications for schizophrenia: Concordance and validity among a community sample in rural China.

ABSTRACT: Background: Despite the abundance of measures to assess medication adherence by persons suffering schizophrenia, few studies have evaluated their concordance and validity against a reference standard in resource-poor community settings. We explored the concordance and validity of several measures to assess antipsychotic medication adherence in a resource-poor community.

Method: Based on a random sample of 278 villagers diagnosed with schizophrenia from Liuyang, Hunan Province, China, we used a concordance correlation coefficient (r_c) and Kappa statistic to assess agreement among pill counts, refill records, clinician rating, Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI), and the Brief Adherence Rating Scale (BARS). The validity of various measures was evaluated by their con

SUBMITTER: Xu DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6252110 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature