Attitudes towards and patterns of use of psychiatric medication
Treatment guidelines recommend psychiatric medication as the core treatment, yet only about half of those administered medication use it as prescribed. There is growing recent evidence that psychiatric medication has diverse impacts on various outcomes over time, which may help explain why non-adherence is so common. We are trying to address the important issue of adherence by investigating the complex associations between key variables involved in the process of medication management and adherence, such as self-variables as self-stigma or identity, and relational variables as therapeutic alliance or social support.
