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Introduction: Medication is the commonly used method of therapy in psychiatry. As noncompliance with medication necessitates repeated hospitalizations, this raises an annoyance both for the patients and their families. Therefore, it is important to determine of how the patients are using their medication and the reasons of inordinate medication usage from both the patients' and their relatives' points of view. This study have been conducted to demonstrate the conditions of the patients in terms of medication usage before hospitalization. Methods: The participants of this study was selected from the patients and their relatives whom were hospitalized in psychiatry clinics in Antalya. 390 patients and their relatives were accepted to participate. The data were obtained by using survey form. SPSS package program 13 was used for the evaluation of the obtained data. Results: According to the results of this study 3/4 of the patients were taking medicine before hospitalization. . Among these patients more than half of them (68.1%) declared that they have been taking their medicine regularly. The common reason for medication usage regularly was that they all beleived that "it was necessary" (Patients = 54.1% and relatives = 57.6%). It has been established that the patients' age, sex and educational background and patients' relatives' sex, age, marital status, family types and the properties of their inhabited areas have an effect on their points of view on taking medicine regularly. Conclusion: This study revealed that one third of the patients according to their denotions and half of the patients according to their relatives' statements do not take their medicines regularly. "The reasons that emerged by the end of this study for not orderly using medications" were thought to be able to eliminate with psycho-educational approach and by increasing the patients' coping capabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]