medication attitude scale?

[chaos]

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I'm designing a research study on people with schizophrenia's attitudes toward antipsychotic medication, and its impact on self-esteem (with the hypothesis that people who take AP's and have a positive attitude toward them will have higher self-esteem than people who take AP's but have a negative attitude toward them). I'm developing a survey on people's attitudes toward antipsychotics based on a variety of factors- Efficacy, side effects, lack of control, stigma, and acceptance of illness. The problem is, since I just made up this survey it has no validity, so I'd like to compare it to an existing measure of patient attitudes toward medication...but I can't find one. The researcher I'm working with doesn't know of any and I haven't been able to find any on the net. So does anyone know of a scale that measures patient attitudes toward psychiatric medication?

 

[serotonin]

I think the MARS (medication adherence rating scale) addresses some aspects of this...

I know there are questions about how people feel about potential side effects, like "yes or no, medication makes me weird, like a zombie".

Good luck!

 

[chaos]

thanks!

heh and I'm just now realizing how complicated designing a research study is. I thought it would be like...ok, I administer my survey plus the Rosenberg scale and correlate the results. Uh...no, lol. Not quite that simple.