Consideration about Treatment Noncompliance in Schizophrenia and Hospital Addressability

Abstract

It is estimated that between 26% and 88% of patients with schizophrenia fail to take their medication correctly (1). As it is proposed that the lack or partial non-compliance plays an important role in eliciting relapse and rehospitalization, the aim of the current study was to examine the treatment non-compliance and the type of hospitalization in schizophrenic patients. We considered two years (2008, 2009) of schizophrenic hospitalizations in Psychiatry and Neurology Hospital Brasov (in departments II and III). The differences in the treatment compliance of schizophrenic patients reflected in addressability to the hospital and implicit voluntary and involuntary hospitalization were found.