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Treatment compliance among psychiatric outpatients in Kenya
Author(s) -
Okonji M. M. O.,
Dhadphale M.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1987.tb02783.x
Subject(s) - compliance (psychology) , psychiatry , medicine , unavailability , patient compliance , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , family medicine , psychology , social psychology , engineering , reliability engineering
— One hundred psychiatric outpatients discharged from mental hospital in Kenya were studied to estimate the treatment compliance after 3 months. The relatives and patients were interviewed separately to assess treatment adherence; 55 percent of them had defaulted in their treatment. Various factors were responsible for failure of compliance which included amongst many: unavailability of drugs which appears to be a common factor in Third World countries. Suggestions for better compliance included easily available injectable depot preparations or simple generic psychotropic drugs.