2.3.2. The Individual Intervention. The individual intervention
consisted of compliance therapy, which was a manual
based short-term therapy, based on an individual, cognitivebehavioral
therapeutic approach to improvement of compliance
in people with schizophrenia. It was built on the principles
of “motivational interviewing” [23] and “concordance
skills” [24]. It consisted of 6 sessions and 3 booster sessions
each of 30–45 minutes’ length.