Psychological predictors of insight and compliance in psychotic patients

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 444-450

  Kemp, Róisín ^a   David, Anthony ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TEST; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029738611     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.169.4.444     Document Type: Article

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