Psycho-demographic and clinical predictors of medication adherence in patients with bipolar I disorder in a university hospital in Egypt.
Tarek Ahmed OkashaDoaa N RadwanHussien ElkholyHeba M F M HendawyEman M M E ShourabRamy R A TeamaAhmed S AbdelgawadPublished in: The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa (2020)
Several socio-demographic and clinical variables were found to be associated with a low adherence rate to the prescribed medication in patients with BD-I. Age and impaired insight were found to be significant predictive factors for non-adherence.