The psychiatry team in our hospital consists of psychiatrists,nurses and pharmacists,and holds meetings with inpatients with psychiatric disease to increase patient adherence to medication.The role of pharmacists in the team is to provide medication information and drug counseling using illustrations.In this study,we conducted questionnaire surveys with regard to medication adherence and drug counseling using illustrations after discharge from hospital.All of the subjects with psychiatric disease targeted (n=citation=50)answered the questions.The total score for patient adherence at 1 month after discharge from hospital was significantly higher than that before hospitalization,and the improvement was maintained for 8 months.Most of the patients felt that drug counseling using illustrations aided understanding of their medication.These results suggest that drug counseling using illustrations is useful in improving medication adherence in patients with psychiatric disease.
