الفهرس 
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Abstract
Patients’ nonadherence is an important issue worldwide which affects
patients in all areas of health care. Although failure to adhere to medication is
extremely costly both in economic terms and health status of individuals, a
substantial number of psychotic patients seen in community settings fail to be
drug adherent. Without medication adherence, therapeutic goals cannot be
achieved resulting in poorer patient outcome. This study aims to identify
psychotic patients’ adherence to their prescribed psychotropic medication. The
study setting was in the psychiatric out patient clinics of El-Mabarah health
Insurance Hospital and EI-Nasr General Governmental Hospital in Port Said
City, the total subjects of the study are l 00 psychotic patients. The results
revealed that 49.0% of the patients were adherent to their psychotropic drugs
and it was closely related to patients’ attitude toward these drugs and
satisfaction with psychiatric interview and patients’ improvement.