This study is designed to determine the effect of pharmaceutical therapy education on knowledge, attitude and admission in patients with psychological problems admitted to Farshchian Hospital of Hamedan. In this study, mental patients will be selected by available sampling method and will be classified into two groups of control and test by random block method. The sample size will be 78 people. Sampling will be continued for at least one month.
According to the physician's diagnosis and patients’ records, lack of mental retardation, not being in acute conditions of psychosis and hospitalization even for one time, will be considered as inclusion criteria. In each stage of study, if the selected patient being reluctant to continue the study, he or she will be excluded.
A researcher who attends psychiatric wards in the evening shift after the completion of visiting, by available sampling method will be selected patients with mental disorders who meet the criteria for research. Then, the consent for taking part in the study will be taken from patients and the process of training will be explained to the patients. Demographic information questionnaire, attitude toward medicine, and pharmaceutical questionnaire will be completed when patient's visiting time is over and we will be not require a specific procedure. The medicine admission checklist which is at 6 p.m. and it’s time for the patients to take medication, will be completed by researcher without patients knowing that.
Groups will be divided to control and test groups by random blocking method. This method will be use to ensure that sample members with the same number and in consecutive time intervals enter into the study. After implementing 4 training sessions for the intervention group, which lasts for one month, and immediately after the completion of these sessions, attitude toward medicine and pharmaceutical knowledge questionnaire will be completed again for intervention group. The medicine admission checklist which is at 6 p.m. and it’s time for the patients to take medication, will be completed by researcher without patients knowing that. No intervention will be applied for control group. Questionnaires for the control group will be completed at the beginning and end of the sessions. The primary outcome of study will be knowledge and attitude toward medication, and secondary outcome of study will be medication admission variable