Prevalence of Medication Adherence in Patients With MDD
The included articles investigated medication adherence to AD
medications or concomitant with antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood
stabilizers, and psychostimulants medications. Although thirty-three
included studies used adherence measurement methods, ten of them not
measure the prevalence, which five included studies not mentioned the
medication adherence level, and five included studies examined
intervention. Although, the prevalence of medication adherence among
patients diagnosed with MDD was found to range from 10.6% to 85.4%, as
presented in Table 4, this variation depends on the data collection
method used to measure medication
adherence and the period of measure.