RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INSIGHTS INTO THE DISEASE WITH COMPLIANCE IN SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS

Noncompliance is a challenging problem in the management of schizophrenic
patients that results in poor clinical and functional outcomes in these patients. Different factors are
effective in patients compliance, insight into the disease could be one of them. This study tries to
determine the relationship between patient’s insight into the disease and the compliance in
schizophrenic patients.
Materials & Methods: In this descriptive analytical study 80 hospitalized schizophrenic patients from
Razi educational clinical center in Tabriz were chosen by considering the purposive sampling method
criteria. In order to collect the data, we used health belief model questionnaire to review insight into
the disease, and a check list to review the compliance. After taking into account the research ethic
protocols, we collected data by interviewing and observation. The data were analyzed by using SPSS
software, descriptive statistics (abundance, percentage, mean, and standard deviation) and interpretive
statistics (Pierson correlation test).
Results: Most participants were female, single, unemployed with education less than high school
diploma. According to the results of this study most patients had good compliance (62%). According
to Pierson correlation test, there is a meaningful statistical relationship between patient’s compliance
and patient’s insight into the disease (p=0.02) and also between compliance and patient’s susceptibility
to disease (p=0.001).
Conclusion: There is a relationship between patient’s insight into the disease, and compliance in
schizophrenic patients. Due to the lack of vast studies in this subject, more studies are necessary to be
done.