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. 2007 Jan 9;33(5):1238–1246. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbl070

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.