This study’s findings can contribute to nursing
practice since the SMFPP contains clear intervention
guidelines and methods to be applied by nurses to
promote medication adherence either in hospitals or
community settings. In future in mental health policy
development, the distribution of antipsychotic
medications in Indonesian communities is critical to
ensuring that PWS receive appropriate care to prevent
relapse. Nurses need to be involved in this policy
making. We suggest that other methods to observe
PWS medication adherence and treatment in the
community could be to use directly observed treatment
(DOT), similar with that used in treatment of people
with tuberculosis. This can involve family members,
and DOT supporters can be health care providers
and/or a community health volunteers as those who
encourage and facilitate PWS in their medication taking