Journal of Psychiatry

Factors effecting the treatment compliance in psychiatric setting: Retrospective study

27^th International Conference on PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH

June 18-19, 2018 Paris, France

Mehmood N, Gohar Y and Talib U

Karwan E Hayat Psychiatric Care & Rehabilitation Center, Pakistan

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Psychiatry

Abstract:

Background: The use of medical therapy is to achieve better outcome in the concerned patients. However, despite all the best efforts of the healthcare professionals, treatment outcomes might not be achievable if the patients are non-complaint. Hence, there is a need to analyze the factors that contribute to non-compliance. Objective: To evaluate the multiple factors associated with adherence to the treatment with severe mental illness in the psychiatric patients. Design: A cross- sectional retrospective study was conducted and data was selected from Karwan e Hayat. Method: The Study included the data set of Hospital Management System (HMS) Karwan e Hayat from Jan 2007 to Dec 2016. A total of 1564 patients, age between 18 to 65 years were selected from inpatient and outpatient clinics for this study. The data record composed of gender, socio economic status and education. Result: The Medication Compliance Scale indicates that 57.1% male and 47.5% female showed adherence to treatment. Uneducated patients were at higher risk of being non-adherent as compared to high educated patients (P=0.00). There were no difference seen between high socioeconomic group and low socioeconomic group in non-adherence. Conclusion: The study highlighted that education and gender are the factors that contributed to therapeutic non-compliance in psychiatric setting.