Schizophrenia: Impact of psychopathology, faith healers and psycho-education on adherence to medications.

Background: Many patients suffering from psychosis are nonadherent to their medications. Nonadherence can range from treatment refusal to irregular use or partial change in daily medication doses.

Aim: To investigate whether symptom dimensions, post-discharge care plans and being involved with faith healer affect the adherence to treatment in patients with schizophrenia.