These items assessed (1) the accompanist, (2) medicine
compliance, (3) number of suicide attempts, (4) number of
self-harm incidents and (5) number of violent incidents
towards others. Item 1 (Who accompanies the patient to see
psychiatrists when needed?) has five possible responses: self,
family/relatives, neighbours/friends, and police/social worker/
community nurse, and others. Item 2 (What is the status of
patient adherence to taking medicines?) has five possible
responses: regularly takes medicine by self, regularly takes
medicine with help from others, irregularly takes medicine,
refuses to take medicine and unknown. Items 3–5 (How
many times did patient attempt suicide? How many self-harm
incidents occurred? How many times did patient act violently
towards others?) are reported as number of occurrences