Treatment compliance among psychiatric outpatients in Kenya.

dc.contributor.author	Okonji, M M
dc.contributor.author	Dhadphale, M
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-11T10:09:52Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-11T10:09:52Z
dc.date.issued	1987-03
dc.identifier.citation	Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1987 Mar;75(3):240-2.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3591406
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/31483
dc.description.abstract	One hundred psychiatric outpatients discharged from mental hospital in Kenya were studied to estimate the treatment compliance after 3 months. The relatives and patients were interviewed separately to assess treatment adherence; 55 percent of them had defaulted in their treatment. Various factors were responsible for failure of compliance which included amongst many: unavailability of drugs which appears to be a common factor in Third World countries. Suggestions for better compliance included easily available injectable depot preparations or simple generic psychotropic drugs.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher		en
dc.title	Treatment compliance among psychiatric outpatients in Kenya.	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	Department of Psychiatry, College of Health Science, University of Nairobi.	en