Relapse in people with schizophrenia is common and in many cases attributable to poor compliance with antipsychotic medication.
Compliance therapywas developed to specifically address non-compliancewith antipsychoticmedication.We only found one reasonably
good but small trial. It did not show that compliance therapy really effected compliance with medication, psychotic symptoms, or
quality of life but it was always too small really to show this for certain. The study did, however, suggest that the compliance therapy
may help people spend shorter times in hospital across a two year period, when compared with standard care. There is a need for more
studies and we have proposed a design that could be conducted within the confines of routine care for outcomes of interest to everyone
involved.