A total of 226 outpatients with schizophrenia were recruited. The mean age of the sample was 42.18 (SD-10.63), 58.4% wrer female. Participants rated themselves as partially adherent on the MAQ with mean adherernce rating of 2.61 (sd=1.27) . A total score of 4 or 3 showed 44.2% of the Participants ,23.5%,respectively.For the main analyses the MAQ scores were dichotomized by classifying the 100(44.4%) patients with rating of 3or 4 as adherent and the 126 (55.8%) patients with rating 2,1 or 0 as non-adherent