Adherence to mental health care and caregiver-patient relationship after diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: Longitudinal follow-up study

The World Health Organization defines therapeutic adherence as “the extent to which the patient’s behaviour matches the prescriber’s recommendations” [1]. It is therefore a dynamic, complex and multifactorial phenomenon for which patients and healthcare professionals share responsibility. Non-adherence to long-term therapies is a key issue as it concerns around half of all chronically ill patients [1]. Poor adherence severely compromises therapeutic effectiveness and therefore impacts the quality of life of these patients and the economics of health care.

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