Effect Of Treatment Compliance Training Given To Patients With Bipolar Disorder

Uşak University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life; Treatment Compliance

Treatments: Behavioral: Treatment Compliance Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04393987

Ebaskaya

Details and patient eligibility

About

In bipolar disorder, treatment noncompliance is associated with high rates of recurrence and hospitalization. Furthermore, it is reported that that treatment noncompliance disturbs the social functioning of patients and reduces the quality of life. Improvement of the quality of life, social functioning and treatment compliance is as important as the long-term treatment of symptoms.This study aimed to determine the effect of treatment compliance training given to patients with bipolar disorder on treatment compliance, social functioning, and quality of life.

Full description

The aim is to determine the effect of treatment compliance training given to patients with bipolar disorder on treatment compliance, social functioning, and quality of life.

The study was conducted with 38 bipolar disorder (n=17 intervention group; n=21 control group) using a quasi-experimental research design. Patients were evaluated using a pre-test, post-test, monitoring test, "Medication

Adherence Rating Scale (MARS)", "Social Functioning Scale (SFS)", and "World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument Short Form (WHOQOLBREF-TR)." The measurements were taken 3 times:

pre test, post-test and 3-months post-test.

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteering to participate,
• Being diagnosed with bipolar disorder,
• Being in the euthymic period,
• Being at the age of 18 or over,
• Being literate.

Exclusion criteria

• Being in an acute period of exacerbation
• Actively using alcohol or psychoactive substances
• Having another psychiatric illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Arms

Experimental group

Description:

Treatment Compliance Training The treatment compliance training consists of five sessions in total and was given individually. Each session of the treatment compliance training given once a week took 45 minutes on average.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment Compliance Training

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was performed on the patients in the control group, and routine follow-up (arranging treatment by the doctor, answering the patient's and family's questions about treatment) continued in the polyclinic.