You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Treatment
Formal guidelines including a pill box improved medication adherence for patients with chronic mental illness

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.2.2.47

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Azrin NH, Teichner G.Evaluation of an instructional program for improving medication compliance for chronically mentally ill outpatients.Behav Res Ther1998 Sep;36:849–61OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    Question Can specific, multicomponent guidelines including a compartmentalised pill box given to patients with mental illness, alone or in the presence of a family member, increase the proportion of patients who comply with their medications?

    Design

    Randomised controlled trial with 2 months follow up.

    Setting

    An outpatient mental health clinic in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

    Patients

    49 patients were assessed and 39 completed the study (mean age 38.5 y, 59% women, 64% white). Inclusion criteria were chronic mental illness; current use of psychotropic oral medications; ≥18 years of age; normal intelligence; living with an adult family member; primary diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, or major depressive disorder; and not currently abusing alcohol or controlled substances …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Source of funding: no external funding except donated pill contatiners.

    • For correspondence: Dr N H Azrin, Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA. Fax +1 954 262 3848.