Every day-to-day effort to provide mental health service to psychiatric patients at the community mental health sites has proven to be a struggle. Several patients would be scheduled with Psychiatrists and registered nurses (RNs) for medication management and treatment, yet, less than fifty percent (50%) would show up. Evidently, within short period of time, clinicians would receive unfavorable events reports, such as, emergency psychiatric/medical hospitalization, incarceration, suicidal episode, and so on.
Having psychiatric patients to stay compliant with treatments has been a big challenge for decades. Rao, George, Sudarshan, & Begum, (2017) defined treatment compliance as “the extent to which a person’s behavior coincides with medical or health advice” (p. 69). Then, further defined non- compliance as, “opposite of compliance” (Rao, et al, 2017, p. 69). Compliance is a major part of determinant of patients’ health outcome. Most Mental health patients have minimal or no insight of their illnesses due to cognitive impairment. As a result, they end up making poor health decisions, engaged in risky behaviors, and, consequently resulting to poor health outcomes. However, if psychiatric patients could stay compliant, there would be symptom control; decreased relapse and hospitalization; and overall improvement in their physical, mental, emotional, and social functioning
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