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Thursday 31 October 2013
Treatment adherence in bipolar I and schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type
This study was aimed at comparing the clinical correlates of adherence to treatment and the course of illness in BDI and SAD patients.Methods: 75 SAD and 150 BDI DSM-IV outpatients were included. Adherence was assessed on the basis of patients? and care-givers? reports and serum levels, when available. Socio-demographic, clinical and treatment variables were collected and compared between diagnostic subsamples and then between goodly and poorly adherent patients. Multiple logistic regressions were performed, controlling for diagnostic subsample differences, to identify correlates of adherence in BDI and SAD groups.Results: Poor adherence was highly prevalent both in BDI (32%) and in SAD patients (44%), with no significant differences between diagnostic categories. Presence of psychotic...
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