Drug Attitude Inventory

The Drug Attitude Inventory-(DAI-30) was created to assess the effectiveness of medication used to treat people hospitalized with Schizophrenia (Lin et al., 2013). This model was based upon 30 questions and yielded a true or false response. For each question resulting in a true response the number 1 assigned. False responses yielded a -1 response. At the end of the assessment scores totaling were referenced to as subjective and negative referred to as negative subjective (Lin et al., 2013). It was used to evaluate the ways patients felt about the medication they were prescribed, personal beliefs in relation to their mental health and well being (Lin et al., 2013). This showed some improvements in symptoms, however, findings were not significant
Most of the people from this study were of African American status, receiving services from the Veterans or within the community and diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Patients Activation relates to what is known about the illness, a persons’ ability to take charge of their illness and a strong self-esteem to manage their life. This model used the Semi structured Indian Psychiatric Illness Interview and a narrative approach to obtain data (Salyer et al., 2013). Findings suggests, using medication and effective treatment helps to have an overall positive
The study is similar to A Pilot study, it evaluated the same approach to collect data on people who were leaving the hospital setting. The 1 month period was not long enough to determine whether people with symptoms were controlled or deteriorated. IMR was compared to TAU and the participants showed more results with IMR than TAU (Lin et al., 2013). Additionally, overall, “both groups improved equally on the thought disturbing scale” (Lin et al., 2013). More research is needed for this study to extend it for a long term period greater than 1 month with all its measures. Lin et al., 2013 stated, “This was the first controlled evaluation of this version of IMR program in an East Asian culture and the first to evaluate it in an acute setting” (p.