Mental Health Clinician Volume 2: Issue 8

Medication adherence is one of the most variable and amendable factors impacting the success of pharmacotherapy. This toolbox provides important resources used to evaluate and improve patient adherence. Many of the tools provided may be administered by a practitioner or applied by the patient themselves to better manage medication regimens and improve health outcomes.

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Many studies have aimed to identify risk factors contributing to medication nonadherence with the goal of developing interventions to improve adherence rates. Several different intervention strategies have been studied. Psychoeducation, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and motivational interviewing have all positively influenced medication adherence and combinations of these approaches may bring about better results than one approach alone. In addition, pharmacists' intervention through answering patients' questions, performing follow up phone calls, offering additional education, and changing of medications or doses, may help the patient and ultimately lead to an increase in medication adherence and disease state improvement.

Medication nonadherence is a large contributor to inadequate therapeutic outcomes, especially among patients with mental illness and carries a high cost. Intervention strategies to increase adherence have incorporated technological advances, including electronic symptom monitoring and communication systems for patients and providers. This article presents a review of several studies demonstrating how technology may affect medication adherence.

MEDICATION INTEREST MODEL (MIM) FEATURED AS ANNUAL MEETING KEYNOTE TOPIC

Jacquelyn E. Canning, PharmD, BCPP

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, CPNP Program Committee Member

In the world of psychiatry, it is difficult to find a clinician without a story of a patient successfully treated with a medication regimen who is later hospitalized upon discontinuation of their medications. Within this ever-changing medical climate, providers search for innovative ways to increase medication adherence. The benefits of patient compliance with appropriate treatment regimens have been well documented in the literature with the positive results ranging from

A potential case of refeeding syndrome in a patient with severe mental illness

Amber R. DouglassPharmD, BCPS, BCPP, FAAPP,

Eliana SpeyBS, and

Kimberly A. EhrhardPharmD, BCPP

Adherence: Magnets, super glue and...patients?

Toolbox: Medication adherence resources for patients and clinicians

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Assessments/References

How to increase medication adherence: What works?

The impact of technology on medication adherence

The impact of a pharmacist assisted clinic upon medication adherence and quality of life in mental health patients

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MEDICATION INTEREST MODEL (MIM) FEATURED AS ANNUAL MEETING KEYNOTE TOPIC

A potential case of refeeding syndrome in a patient with severe mental illness

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