title: [Using King's Goal Attainment Theory to facilitate drug compliance in a psychiatric patient].
abstract: This paper describes a schizophrenic patient who failed to comply with his drug regimen and was repeatedly admitted to hospital. Using King's Goal Attainment Theory as guidance, it was found that the patient's main problem was medication noncompliance. We developed an individual nursing care plan that met the patient's needs, including helping him to understand the importance of medication compliance, the relationship between disease and medication-control, and the symptoms of disease recurrence. The result showed that King's Goal Attainment Theory benefited both patients and families when it was applied to drug therapy and medication compliance. From this experience, we are able to demonstrate that using King's Goal Attainment Theory to design nursing care plans and interventions for schizophrenic patients who are repeatedly admitted to hospital because of medication noncompliance is very effective. In addition, it can also assist patients to control their conditions, decrease frequency of the disease recurrence and hospital readmission, and maintain their socialized functions.
authors.affiliation: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan, ROC. chenmy@yuntech.edu.tw
authors.forename: Mei-Ying
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010349:Patient Compliance; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing*