Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Psychiatry 1735-4587 3 1 2008 03 15 37 42 Mohammad Yaghoubi Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Mohsen Yazdani Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Victoria Omranifard Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Mahshid Namdari Medicine and Health Promotion Institute,Tehran, Iran 2015 10 17 Objective: We aimed to describe psychiatrists' attributions on non-compliance related issues resulting in re-hospitalizations of psychiatric patients. Method: In a cross sectional study, we included 500 randomly selected psychiatric readmitted patients and registered their demographic data (including age, sex, job, marital status, and educational level), and psychiatric clinical data including diagnosis, medications, and presence of psychiatric disorders in family members). Possible noncompliance issues by means of type and causes were asked through a structured interview by a psychiatrist. Results: Non-compliance was reported as a possible cause of admission in 441 88.2) of the re-hospitalized cases. No insight to disease (n=295; 59%), and feeling of cure (n=138; 27.6%) were the 2 most prevalent causes for noncompliance of the patients . Conclusion: It seems that non-compliance, as a prevalent factor, possibly causes readmission in psychiatric wards. Providing a better insight to disease and to instruct patients to take their medications even if they have some feeling of cure is important to decrease such problems. https://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/view/466 https://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/download/466/490