Measuring adherence to antipsychotic medications for schizophrenia: Concordance and validity among a community sample in rural China

Despite the abundance of measures to assess medication adherence by persons suffering schizophrenia, few studies have evaluated their concordance and validity against a reference standard in resource-poor community settings. We explored the concordance and validity of several measures to assess antipsychotic medication adherence in a resource-poor community.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - May 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dong (Roman) Xu, Wenjie Gong, Steve Gloyd, Eric D. Caine, Jane Simoni, James P. Hughes, Shuiyuan Xiao, Wenjun He, Bofeng Dai, Meijuan Lin, Juan Nie, Hua He Source Type: research