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DAI-10
DRUG ATTITUDE INVENTORY
(Shortened Version)
1.

For me, the good things about medication outweigh the bad.

2.

I feel weird, like a zombie, on medication.

3.

I take medications of my own free choice.

4.

Medications make me feel more relaxed.

5.

Medication makes me feel tired and sluggish.

6.

I take medication only when I am sick.

7.

I feel more normal on medication.

8.

It is unnatural for my mind and body to be controlled by medications.

9.

My thoughts are clearer on medication.

10.

By staying on medications, I can prevent getting sick.

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DAI-10
DRUG ATTITUDE INVENTORY
(Shortened Version)
Scoring Criteria
The DAI-10 is derived from stepwise discriminant analyses of responses of one hundred and
fifty (150) schizophrenic patients to the DAI-30. In the preliminary validation reported, these
coefficients were used as weights applied to the score of the corresponding item in the shortened
version (DAI-10).
The scale has 10 items, six of them will be scored as TRUE and four will be scored as
FALSE. A correct answer to these items will be scored as plus one. An incorrect response will
be scored as minus one. The final score is the sum of the total of pluses and the minuses. A
positive total score means a positive subjective response (compliant). A negative total score
means a negative subjective response (non-compliant).
Below is our standard of a completely compliant response profile (positive subjective response).

1 T
2 F
3 T
4 T
5 F

6 F
7 T
8 F
9 T
10 T