Prevalence and correlates of poor medication adherence amongst psychiatric outpatients in southwestern Nigeria

Prevalence of Antipsychotic Drug Non Adherence and Associated Factors Among Patients with Schizophrenia Attending at Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Institutional Based Cross Sectional Study

“…Current study also found out perceived stigma and attitude towards treatment were the other factors which were identified to have statistical significance; which coincides with study done in Nigeria and Uganda [11,25].…”

Medication-related factors of non adherence among patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Outcome of a cross-sectional survey in Maiduguri, North-eastern Nigeria

“…The reported higher rate of nonadherence among subjects with schizophrenia than among those with bipolar disorder might be attributed to: higher rate of the prescription of conventional anti- psychotics and their attendant side effects such as the extrapyramidal ones which may encumber adherence, and probable lower levels of insight and residual psychopathology among the schizophrenic subjects in comparison to their bipolar disorder counterparts that might have negatively affected adherence. Though, the prevalence of non-adherence reported in this study, falls within the range of most studies conducted earlier by Adewuya et al (2009), Yang et al (2012 and Kassis et al (2014), the rate was below 66.9 and 74% reported in Egypt by Amr et al (2013) and by Banerjee and Varma (2013) in India respectively. This discrepancy could be attributed to the methodological differences in the studies, such as the tools used for the assessment of adherence and the different cut-off values used for the definition of adherence and non-adherence.…”

“…Though, previous studies by Adewuya et al (2009) and Adeponle et al (2009) looked at these pertinent issues among patients with mental illnesses in this part of the African subcontinent, this is the first study to the best of our knowledge that strictly looked at medication-related factors as predictors of poor adherence among patients with the two diagnostic entities analyzed. This is important considering our socio-economic peculiarities and the therapeutic options available at the disposal of mental health clinicians in sub-Saharan Africa.…”

Medication Non-adherence and Use of Traditional Treatment Among Adult Psychiatric Patients in Jimma Town Treated at Jimma University Teaching Hospital Psychiatric Clinic. Community Based Cross-sectional Study, 2016

“…Other study done in Nigeria the prevalence of medication non-adherent was 48% and being employed, poor social support and perceived spiritual causation of mental illness were significant predictors of medication non adherent [15].…”