Treatment compliance among psychiatric outpatients in Kenya.
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1987-03Author
Okonji, M M
Dhadphale, M
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One hundred psychiatric outpatients discharged from mental hospital in Kenya were studied to estimate the treatment compliance after 3 months. The relatives and patients were interviewed separately to assess treatment adherence; 55 percent of them had defaulted in their treatment. Various factors were responsible for failure of compliance which included amongst many: unavailability of drugs which appears to be a common factor in Third World countries. Suggestions for better compliance included easily available injectable depot preparations or simple generic psychotropic drugs.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3591406http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/31483
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Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1987 Mar;75(3):240-2.Publisher
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