Poor Adherence to Oral Psychiatric Medication in Adults with Bipolar Disorder : The Psychiatrist May have More Influence than in Other Severe Mental Illnesses

Objective: Medication adherence in bipolar disorder (BD) may be influenced by 6 selfreported dimensions: 1) high/low psychological reactance, 2) high/low internal healthlocus of control (HLOC), 3) high/low doctor HLOC, 4) pharmacophobia, 5) pharmacophilia, and 6) skepticism about a specific medication. This study in Spain, Argentina, and Venezuela included 142 outpatients with BD prescribed 320 psychiatric medications and 1230 other psychiatric outpatients prescribed 2134 medications. Methods: Logistic regression models included adherence for each psychiatric medication, measured by the Sidorkiewicz Adherence Tool as the dependent variable. The models provided adjusted odds ratios (ORs) of dichotomous independent variables: clinical variables and 6 self-reported dimensions. Results: ORs significant in both groups were: 1) high doctor HLOC (OR=1.87 in BD, OR=1.25 in other patients), 2) high psychological reactance (respectively OR=0.572, OR=0.798), 3) pharmacophobia (respectively OR=0.361, OR=0.614), and 4) skepticism about a specific medication (respectively OR=0.300, OR=0.556). Two ORs were only significant in BD patients: medication duration > 1 year (OR=0.449), and extreme polypharmacy (OR=2.49). The study included 104 BD patients prescribed 122 mood stabilizers and 136 other patients prescribed 140 mood stabilizers. Two ORs were significant for mood stabilizer adherence only in BD patients: high doctor HLOC and skepticism (respective ORs=2.38, OR=0.390). The study included 87 BD patients prescribed 97 antipsychotics and 417 other patients prescribed 458 antipsychotics. Four ORs were significant for antipsychotic adherence only in the BD group. Conclusions: Future studies of adherence to all/specific medications should explore the specific city/commonality of these dimensions, particularly doctor HLOC, in BD versus other psychiatric patients. (Neuropsychopharmacol Hung 2021; 23(4): 347-362).

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Neuropsychopharmacologia Hungarica : a Magyar Pszichofarmakologiai Egyesulet lapja = official journal of the Hungarian Association of Psychopharmacology - 23(2021), 4 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 347-362

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

De Las Cuevas, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Villasante-Tezanos, G Alejandro [VerfasserIn]
Motuca, Mariano [VerfasserIn]
Baptista, Trino [VerfasserIn]
Lazary, Judit [VerfasserIn]
Pogany, Laszlo [VerfasserIn]
De Leon, Jose [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Antipsychotic Agents
Attitude to health
Bipolar disorder
Health behavior
Journal Article
Medication adherence
Psychopharmacology

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 04.01.2022

Date Revised 04.01.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM335068928