Adherence to treatment program in mental health rehabilitation service

Abstract

Aims

After several years of research to improve the action of antipsychotic medication and to reduce its side effects, we have realized the importance of an accurate intake of antipsychotic medication and because of it we started up a program in our Mental Health Rehabilitation Service. Therefore, we can affirm that outpatients behavior influence their intake medication and also the efficiency of the drug prescription. The main consequence of inadequate treatment compliance is an increase in relapses and hospital admission.

The aim of this program is to improve adherence to pharmacological treatment, to promote the quality of life for a better social integration, to know the use of prescribed medication, to know the health resources of the network to acquire the medication and to acquire skills for greater autonomy in the management and management of medication.

Method

We analyzed a sample of 13 outpatient diagnosed with severe mental disorder that started up into our Program “Adherence to treatment” and their stabilization (less relapses and less admissions) in two years’ time.

Results

One of the patients have completed the aims of the program and he is living on his own, nine of them continue the program without relapses or admissions, one dropped out the program because of relapse and an another one have also completed the program but he died because of somatic disease.

Conclusions

The experience of this program in group format is positive, since patients acquire skills, knowledge and strategies in their own treatment in line with the recovery model in psychosocial rehabilitation.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.