Attitude Towards Drug Therapy in a Community Mental Health Center Evaluated by the Drug Attitude Inventory.
Rosaria Di LorenzoDaniela PerroneAnushree MontorsiJessica BalducciSergio RovestiPaola FerriPublished in: Patient preference and adherence (2020)
Among the selected variables, "monotherapy" and "total number of hospitalizations" were negatively correlated to the final score of DAI-30, whereas being "married" was positively correlated to it, in a statistically significant way, using the multiple linear regression model. These correlations suggest that positive attitude towards drug therapy could be reinforced by the condition of being married and reduced by relapses with hospitalization, as literature highlighted, and, paradoxically, by a monotherapy, which could suggest a sort of psychological dependence on therapy and, indirectly, on psychiatric service, potentially correlated to the long-term treatments of our patients.