Effect of mental health nurses' beliefs and knowledge of medication on their use of strategies to improve medication adherence.

@article{Drori2014EffectOM,
  title={Effect of mental health nurses' beliefs and knowledge of medication on their use of strategies to improve medication adherence.},
  author={Tal Drori and H. Guetta and M. Ben Natan and Yaakov Polakevich},
  journal={International journal of mental health nursing},
  year={2014},
  volume={23 4},
  pages={
          374-80
        }
}
Despite the proven efficiency of medication for mental illness, research indicates low patient adherence to medication. Nonetheless, only few studies have directly examined the relationship between nurse beliefs and knowledge, and their use of strategies to improve patient adherence to psychiatric medication. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to clarify nurses' views, beliefs about, and knowledge of psychiatric medication affect their inclination to implement various strategies to… Expand
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