title: [Implementation of a psycho-educational program for guests of a residential facilities in the area of Bari to develop a better adherence to drug treatment].
abstract: Patients with psychiatric disorders will provide the basis of their pathology dysfunction of organic, physiological, neurochemical, and that generally require a drug therapy which lasts for long periods of time and in most cases is never abandoned constitute the foundation essential to their daily life. In the psychiatric promote a higher degree of adherence to treatment, even with the use of new psychotropic drugs continues to be one of the most important clinical problems, especially in long-term treatment of severe psychiatric patients. The non compliance to treatment is reflected in both the clinical and social terms. The program is implemented are given information about the nature, development and the signs of mental disorder, was given the right importance to the ability to identify and communicate to staff the facility housing the possible side-effects resulting from drugs and have informed the visitors to promptly recognize signs prodromes characteristic of a state of decompensation.
authors.affiliation: Tecniche della Riabilitazione Psichiatrica, Università di Bari. leporegiuseppe@tele2.it
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lepore
authors.forename: Anna Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Piperis
authors.forename: Maria Pia
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Sacco
mesh_terms: D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D055118:Medication Adherence; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic