Compliance to treatment in bipolar disorder

Authors

  • Aida Santin UFRGS; Departamento de Psiquiatria e Medicina Legal
  • Keila Ceresér Laboratório de Psiquiatria Experimental; UFRGS
  • Adriane Rosa Fundação Faculdade Federal de Ciências Médicas de Porto Alegre

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-60832005000700015

Keywords:

Bipolar disorder, adherence, treatment

Abstract

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic and recurrent illness that occurs in 1,5% of the population. This illness is associated with high rates of mortality and social/economic burden. Lithium, carbamazepine and valproic acid are the most used mood stabilizers. In long term treatments, as in BD, one of the main difficulties is the patient's adherence. It appears that factors associated to the patient, drug and the physician are responsible for the low adherence. The use of psycho-education, cognitive-behavioral therapy and focused family therapy have been put forward as a means to increase adherence.

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Published

2005-01-01

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Original Articles

How to Cite

Compliance to treatment in bipolar disorder . (2005). Archives of Clinical Psychiatry, 32(supl.1), 105-109. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-60832005000700015