Effectiveness of Adherence Therapy for Schizophrenia

You may be eligible if

• are Hong Kong Chinese residents;
• have a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia or its subtypes such as schizophreniform and schizoaffective disorders not more than 3 years;
• have been prescribed oral antipsychotics for at least 1 month;
• are aged 18-65 years;
• have Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) score \>60 and are judged by the case Community Psychiatric Nurse/psychiatrist as non-adherents; and
• are able to understand Cantonese/Mandarin.
• Patients will be excluded if they have:
• only depot/intramuscular injections as regular psychiatric medication;
• co-morbidity of learning disability and organic brain disease, or clinically significant medical diseases;
• participated in adherence therapy; and/or
• visual, language or communication difficulty.