Experience of Psychotropic Medication - An Interview Study of Persons with Psychosis.

This article is based on interviews with 19 persons diagnosed with psychosis. It challenges the notion of patients being either adherent or non-adherent to the doctor's orders. The findings show that persons with psychosis are active agents when it comes to adjusting medication. The interviewees created their own strategies to gain power over treatment with psychotropic drugs. The most common strategies were to adjust the doses or take breaks of varying lengths from the medication. These deviations from prescriptions were important to conceal, not only from their own psychiatrists, but from all psychiatric staff.
PMID: 27696916 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Issues in Mental Health Nursing - October 6, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: Issues Ment Health Nurs Source Type: research