Schizophrenia Research
Volume 100, Issue 1 , Pages 60-69 , March 2008

The Brief Adherence Rating Scale (BARS) validated against electronic monitoring in assessing the antipsychotic medication adherence of outpatients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder

  • Matthew J. Byerly

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6363 Forest Park Rd, Suite 651, Dallas, TX 75235-8828, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Paul A. Nakonezny

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Biostatistics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6363 Forest Park Rd, Suite 651, Dallas, TX 75235-8828, USA
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  • A. John Rush

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Sciences and Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-9066, USA

Received 10 September 2007 ,Revised 29 November 2007 ,Accepted 6 December 2007.

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    Instrument×Period simple effects for mean level of EM and BARS adherence. The means reported in this figure represent the same least-squares means reported in Table 1. The mixed model repeated measure

    Instrument×Period simple effects for mean level of EM and BARS adherence. The means reported in this figure represent the same least-squares means reported in Table 1. The mixed model repeated measures analysis revealed no significant Instrument effect across the 6 test periods (p=.61).

PII: S0920-9964(07)01036-5

doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2007.12.470

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 100, Issue 1 , Pages 60-69 , March 2008