Nonadherence to psychopharmacological treatments poses a significant challenge to treatment success in individuals with serious mental illness, with upwards of 60% of people not taking their psychiatric medications as prescribed. Nonadherence is associated with adverse outcomes, including exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms, impaired functioning, increased hospitalizations and emergency room u...

UNLABELLED Nonadherence to medication treatment regimens is a major preventable risk behavior in both acute and chronic diseases. Community pharmacists are facilitators in community care for promoting medication adherence and they should implement interdisciplinary medication adherence programs. To do so, pharmacists should be educated in medication adherence, and new pharmaceutical care polici...

objective: bipolar disorder is a severe mental disorder, and its prevalence is around 1% to 2%. despite a vast literature around bipolar disorder, the reasons of its nonadherence and rehospitalization is still obscure. several symptoms of bipolar disorder include changes in activity level, cognitive abilities, speech, and vegetative functions, such as sleep, sexual activity, as well as aggressi...

Nonadherence to chronic therapy has become a large burden on the healthcare system of many countries. Community pharmacists are well positioned to address nonadherence as part of their overall patient care activities, and contribute to patients' quality use of medicines. Between 2008 and 2010, a series of narrative, peer-reviewed articles were published in Pharmacy Practice which focused on com...

OBJECTIVE To familiarize pharmacists with motivational interviewing as a way to engage patients in discussions about medication adherence. SUMMARY Motivational interviewing is a collaborative, patient-centered communications skill set that can increase behavior change by stimulating a patient's own internal motivation for change. Pharmacists using motivational interviewing can explore factors...

BACKGROUND Medication nonadherence is a frequent problem in the treatment of chronic conditions. OBJECTIVE To study the adherence to pharmacological treatment of chronic nonmalignant pain, as well as factors and patient attitudes related to nonadherence in patients aged ≥65 years. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted with a self-administered questionnaire among 100 patients aged ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the level of nonadherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and to explore the association of factors militating against adherence and nonadherence to therapy among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) at an Antiretroviral Clinic in Ibadan, Nigeria. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey was employed to determine the prevalence of nonadherence. METHODOLOGY A str...