title: Is the treatment worse than the cure? Attitudes toward medications among persons with severe mental illness.
abstract: 1. Patients' attitudes toward taking long-term psychotropic medications and factors that may influence drug attitudes are important factors in compliance. 2. Patients in this study had generally positive drug attitudes and perceived their medications as important in preventing relapse. 3. Attitudes toward psychotropic medications may be more positive than has been assumed by mental health professionals, as patients seem to realize that the advantages of medications outweight side effects.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh 54901, USA.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Van Dongen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D016312:Treatment Refusal / Q000523:psychology
chemical_list: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents