2008
DOI: 10.1097/nmd.0b013e318160ea00
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Treatment Adherence and Illness Insight in Veterans With Bipolar Disorder

Abstract: Insight into the perceived value of psychotherapy and pharmacological treatment may improve adherence to medication regimens among patients with bipolar disorder, because patients are more likely to take medication they believe will make them better. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of patients recruited into the Continuous Improvement for Veterans in Care-Mood Disorders (CIVIC-MD; July 2004-July 2006), assessing therapeutic insight and 2 measures of medication adherence: the Morisky scale of intrapersona… Show more

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“…As well as studies that conclude men are less treatment adherent than women (6,19,20), similar to our study, there are studies that conclude women are less treatment adherent (21), and studies that indicate that gender has no effect on adherence (5,9,22). An important point that needs to be touched upon is that treatment adherence was independent of current medications prescribed.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 74%
“…As well as studies that conclude men are less treatment adherent than women (6,19,20), similar to our study, there are studies that conclude women are less treatment adherent (21), and studies that indicate that gender has no effect on adherence (5,9,22). An important point that needs to be touched upon is that treatment adherence was independent of current medications prescribed.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 74%
“…Inpatients with bipolar disorder had poorer insight into various aspects of their illness compared with the other two groups. Our findings suggest that integrating psycho-education in the management of patients with psychiatric disorders may improve insight; in turn, insight may positively affect compliance [23], resulting in improved outcome [24,25,26]. In fact, psycho-education was shown to improve short- and long-term outcome, and this positively relates to adherence/compliance in both bipolar disorder [27,28] and schizophrenia [29,30].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Keck et al (38) evaluated drug compliances of patients during their one year follow-up study by information obtained from patients and healthcare providers of patients, and they reported that 51% were partially or completely incompliant. Copeland et al (39) performed a study on 435 patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and they reported that 46% of patients had poor compliance. Sajatovic et al (40) performed a study to determine drug compliance of patients with bipolar disorder, and they reported that 48.1% of them were partially or completely incompliant with antipsychotic treatment, whereas 51.9% were completely compliant.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%