Psychiatric patients are reputed to be less adherent than others to medication regimens, but a new study may upend that assumption.
A study of 1,686 veterans revealed that the extent of adherence to antipsychotic medication regimens was significantly better than to hypoglycemic and antihypertensive medications, but shorter prescription refill intervals were found to be more closely correlated with nonadherence than were types of medication.
"With adjustment, we found that people with schizophrenia are not any worse about sticking to their medications than people without schizophrenia," lead study author John Piette, Ph.D., an epidemiologist and an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, told Psychiatric News. The study appeared in the February Psychiatric Services.
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