Can incentives improve antipsychotic adherence in major mental illness? A mixed-methods systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Incentives have been effectively used in several healthcare contexts. This systematic review aimed to ascertain whether incentives can improve antipsychotic adherence, what ethical and practical issues arise and whether existing evidence resolves these issues.

Design

Systematic review of MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsycINFO. Searches on 13 January 2021 (no start date) found papers on incentives for antipsychotics. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs), cohort studies, qualitative research and ethical analyses were included. Papers measuring impact on adherence were synthesised, then a typology of ethical and policy issues was compiled, finally the empirical literature was compared with this typology to describe current evidence and identify remaining research questions.

SUBMITTER: Hodson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9204416 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature