NCT04393987

Effect Of Treatment Compliance Training Given To Patients With Bipolar Disorder

Effect Of Treatment Compliance Training Given To Patients With Bipolar Disorder On Treatment Compliance, Social Functioning, And Quality Of Life

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 38 (actual)
• Sponsor: Uşak University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Quality of Life
• Treatment Compliance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Treatment Compliance Training	Treatment Compliance Training consist of: Introduction of Treatment Compliance Program and Information about the Disease, Therapies for Bipolar Disorder and Importance of Treatment Compliance, Drugs Used for Bipolar Disorder, Effects and Side effects, Strategies to Solve Treatment-Related Problems and Cope with Stress, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Stigmatization Towards Patient/Disease in Bipolar Disorder. The sessions were held in the form of PowerPoint presentations. In the Treatment Compliance Training, lecture, question-answer, homework, sharing experiences, video presentation, summarization were used.The day before each session, patients were phoned and reminded of the time of the session.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-15
• Primary completion: 2019-01-01
• Completion: 2019-09-01
• First posted: 2020-05-19
• Last updated: 2020-05-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)