title: Adherence and accuracy. Self-medication during inpatient psychiatric treatment.
abstract: 1. The goals of the Medication Education and Self-Administration Program were to develop a way to assess inpatient self-medication accuracy; create a comprehensive intervention that would address individual characteristics that may produce nonadherence; and evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. 2. The majority of program participants demonstrated significant errors within days when given the opportunity to administer their own medications, suggesting that participants' in-hospital self-administration may be an accurate predictor of postdischarge performance. 3. Even in cases where training failed to influence self-administered performance, program participation provided valuable information that guided subsequent treatment decisions and programmatic refinements.
authors.affiliation: Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, Anna, Illinois.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Coudreaut-Quinn
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Emmons
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: McMorrow
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012646:Self Administration / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards