Descriptive cross-sectional study examines cognitive insight's impact on treatment adherence in psychiatric patients, suggesting implications for therapy.
Key Points
The study aimed to investigate how cognitive insight relates to treatment adherence among psychiatric patients.
Descriptive, cross-sectional, and correlational design
Sample of 140 psychiatric patients from a public hospital
Data collected using the Morisky medication adherence scale and the Beck cognitive insight scale
The expressing oneself subdimension of cognitive insight positively impacted treatment adherence (β=0.259; p<0.001)
The self-confidence subdimension had no significant effect (β=0.050; p>0.05)
The model explained 10.5% of the variance in treatment adherence.