Prevalence of Medication Adherence in Patients With MDD
The included articles investigated medication adherence to AD medications or concomitant with antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood stabilizers, and psychostimulants medications. Although thirty-three included studies used adherence measurement methods, ten of them not measure the prevalence, which five included studies not mentioned the medication adherence level, and five included studies examined intervention. Although, the prevalence of medication adherence among patients diagnosed with MDD was found to range from 10.6% to 85.4%, as presented in Table 4, this variation depends on the data collection method used to measure medication adherence and the period of measure.