Members of the experimental group received routine home visits, plus a 1-hour the theory-based program intervention 12 times in the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 21st, and 23rd weeks, and each patient received a total of 12 hours of intervention.
The control group received routine home visits by psychiatric mental nurses, and the nurse provided patients with answers to questions about medications or care and handling of life events. The visits and intervention time frequency were the same as those in the experimental group.
Both groups were received baseline (T0), after the 6th hours intervention (T1) and 12th hours intervention by nurses to collect data on the main outcome variables: adherence to medication, mental symptoms, motivation to take medication, and attitude towards medication.
