Reasons of TB Treatment Non Compliance

A study of reasons of non-compliance to psychiatric treatment.

BACKGROUND This study was carried out with an objective to find out the frequency of different reasons of non-compliance to treatment in a sample of out door psychiatric patients. METHODS This study was conducted at Psychiatry department, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, from Aug. 2001 to Jan. 2002. Data from a non-probability sample of two hundred follow up patients with a ...

Isoniazid resistant TB and non-compliance.

We read with interest the report by Ruddy et al on the outbreak of isoniazid resistant tuberculosis in North London. We share their concern about the development of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in patients infected with a Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain with primary isoniazid resistance which may occur especially in cases of noncompliance. In the Netherlands the incidence of TB i...

The ReASONS FOR COMPLIANCe WITh The LAW

The Reasons for Compliance with Law

Letter to the Editor Reasons for Non-Compliance of Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs in Developing Countries

Poor adherence to psychotropics undermines the possibility of effective drug treatment in psychiatric disorders. The reasons (Cooper, 2007) described for not taking drugs as prescribed were forgetting, losing, running out; thinking medication unnecessary; reluctance to take drugs and side effects. Rest other reasons for non-compliance could be violence, greater substance use, complexity of the ...