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Attitudes of patients with schizophrenia toward taking medication
Author(s) -
Davidhizar Ruth Elaine,
Austin Joan Kessner,
McBride Angela Barron
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.4770090209
Subject(s) - feeling , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , negative symptom , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , psychosis
The attitude of 50 hospitalized persons with schizophrenia toward taking their medication was examined. Both open‐ended and fixed‐response estimates of attitude were made. Insight also was measured, and the relationships between insight and attitude and between hallucinations and insight were analyzed. Patients were able to provide information about beliefs and feelings about taking medication and about insight toward illness and treatment. Attitudes varied, and both strongly positive and strongly negative beliefs about taking medication were held simultaneously. Some of the implications for nursing are explained.