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Published Online: March 1961

THE RELATION OF ATTITUDE TOWARD MEDICATION TO TREATMENT OUTCOMES IN CHEMOTHERAPY

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

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An Attitude Toward Medication Scale was administered before and after treatment to 369 patients in a large-scale chemotherapy study. The hypothesis that the attitude of patients toward medication has an important bearing on treatment effect was not upheld with this population of chronic, apathetic schizophrenics. Medication attitude, however, was significantly related to a cluster of symptoms that tend to characterize paranoid schizophrenics indicating that the more paranoid the patient, the less faith he had that he might be helped by medication.

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American Journal of Psychiatry
Pages: 830 - 832
PubMed: 13707239

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Published in print: March 1961
Published online: 1 April 2006

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VA Central NP Research Laboratory, Perry Point, Md.
VA Hospital, Brockton, Mass.

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