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Medication compliance in a Chinese psychiatric out‐patient setting
Author(s) -
Chan David W.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1984.tb01585.x
Subject(s) - expectancy theory , compliance (psychology) , cognition , psychology , psychiatry , stigma (botany) , addiction , clinical psychology , patient compliance , medicine , social psychology , family medicine
The knowledge and attitudes of 36 psychiatric out‐patients regarding medication were investigated by personal interview. Over 80 per cent of the variance of self‐report medication compliance was predictable from an array of socio‐economic variables and cognitive variables. Compliers and non‐compliers differed in their expectancy and prior experience of beneficial effects of the medication, and in their fear of undesirable side‐effects and the problem of addiction. Using causal modelling procedures, self‐report compliant behaviour was causally linked to favourable attitudes and fear, which in turn were linked to knowledge of name, dose, purpose, and side‐effects of the medication and the perceived stigma of the illness. Implications for patient education aimed at improving patient compliance are discussed.