Table 3.
Spiritual Visions of Illness and Treatment and Adherence to Treatment (n = 103 patients, %)
Noncompliant | Partially Compliant | Depot Medication | Good Adherence | Total | |
N | 16 | 11 | 17 | 59 | 103 |
Spiritual vision of illness | |||||
Negative | 31 | 45 | 18 | 24 | 26 |
Positive | 38 | 45 | 41 | 24 | 31 |
No role* | 31 | 9 | 41 | 53 | 43 |
Spiritual vision of medication | |||||
Negative* | 31 | 27 | 0 | 8 | 13 |
Positive | 13 | 27 | 35 | 37 | 32 |
No role | 56 | 45 | 65 | 54 | 55 |
Spiritual vision of supportive therapy | |||||
Negative* | 31 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 12 |
Positive | 19 | 27 | 29 | 36 | 31 |
No role | 50 | 64 | 71 | 54 | 57 |
Not at ease to speak about religion with psychiatrist | 44 | 27 | 18 | 15 | 21 |
Spiritual vision of illness and spiritual vision of medication* | |||||
No spiritual vision | 25 | 0 | 29 | 39 | 31 |
Spiritual vision of illness, no spiritual vision of medication | 31 | 45 | 35 | 15 | 24 |
Spiritual vision of illness, positive spiritual view of medication | 13 | 18 | 24 | 29 | 24 |
No spiritual vision of illness, positive spiritual view of medication | 0 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 8 |
Spiritual vision of illness, negative spiritual view of medication | 25 | 27 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
No spiritual vision of illness, negative spiritual view of medication | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
Differences between groups according to compliance at a 2-tailed P level < .05.