antipsychotic medications
Improving physical health monitoring for patients with chronic mental health problems who receive antipsychotic medications
... The aim of this project was to improve the physical health monitoring for patients with severe mental health illness (SMI) who are on antipsychotic medications. The patients group was under the care of ...
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Effective therapeutic dosage of antipsychotic medications in patients with psychotic symptoms: Is there a racial difference?
... of antipsychotic medications, health care financing systems among other factors which may vary in different regions of the world and can contrib- ute to the observed difference in prescription pattern and ...
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Demographic and clinical correlates of sexual dysfunction among Nigerian male outpatients on conventional antipsychotic medications
... conventional antipsychotic medications for at least six months (including those that still had active or residual symptoms but not acutely disturbed with gross excite- ment or disorientation) were ...
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AN EVALUATION OF EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDICATIONS IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS
... and antipsychotic medications are used for the treatment of various psychiatric ...conventional medications there may be considerable overlap in the disorders for which they are actually indicated, ...
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Diabetes, Psychiatric Disorders, and the Metabolic Effects of Antipsychotic Medications
... disorders. Antipsychotic medications, first intro- duced in the 1950s, are a vital compo- nent of the medical management of sev- eral of these psychiatric ...These medications are often prescribed by ...
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Comparison of patients undergoing switching versus augmentation of antipsychotic medications during treatment for schizophrenia
... their antipsychotic medications were either switched or ...oral antipsychotic treatment for schizophrenia were assessed during a 12-month international observational ...switch antipsychotic ...
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Variation in use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes in the United States: A systematic review
... Background: The use of antipsychotic medications (APMs) in nursing home residents in the U.S. is an increasingly prominent issue and has been associated with increased risk of hospitalization, ...
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Efficacy and safety of haloperidol versus atypical antipsychotic medications in the treatment of delirium
... of antipsychotic medication for the treatment of delirium have reported that there is no significant difference between typical and atypical antipsychotic ...atypical antipsychotic medications ...
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The Association between Dyslipidaemia and Types of Antipsychotic Medications among Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia
... Among all demographic and clinical variables, only two factors i.e. race and family history of hyperlipidaemia were statistically significant for presence of dyslipidaemia (p < 0.05). Typical and atypical ...
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STRIDE: a randomized trial of a lifestyle intervention to promote weight loss among individuals taking antipsychotic medications
... The STRIDE study is a parallel-arm, multi-site, random- ized controlled trial, translating the PREMIER comprehen- sive lifestyle intervention [27-30] DASH diet arm [31] for individuals taking antipsychotic ...
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Antipsychotic medications and cognitive functioning in bipolar disorder: moderating effects of COMT Val108/158Met genotype
... between antipsychotic medi- cations and COMT Val 108/158 Met rs ...receive antipsychotic medications; however, post-hoc analyses revealed no significant effects of number of episodes and/or psychotic ...
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Polysubstance induced relapse of schizoaffective disorder refractory to high dose antipsychotic medications: a case report
... minutes of administration of either medication. In contrast, our patient was administered standard doses of lorazepam, ziprasidone, zuclopenthixol acetate, and droperidol within the first hour, yet he remained dan- ...
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Predictors of switching antipsychotic medications in the treatment of schizophrenia
... of antipsychotic medications among predominately outpatients treated for schizo- phrenia and related ...switch antipsychotic medication (switch- ers), the ones who constitute the pool of patients who ...
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Original Article Effects of second-generation antipsychotic medications treatment: cognitive improvement in Chinese patients with schizophrenia
... Abstract: Objectives: To evaluate the cognitive improvement and assess the practice effects on patients with first- episode schizophrenia (FES) after accepting second-generation antipsychotic medications ...
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Development of a tool for monitoring the prescribing of antipsychotic medications to people with dementia in general practice: a modified eDelphi consensus study
... Methods: A modified eDelphi technique was employed. We invited multidisciplinary experts in antipsychotic prescribing to people with dementia to participate. These experts included general practitioners (GPs), ...
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Assessing the burden of treatment emergent adverse events associated with atypical antipsychotic medications
... 15 antipsychotic drugs and placebo in the acute treatment of schizophrenia and found that whereas antipsychotics had small but robust differences in efficacy, they differed substantially in side effects ...an ...
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Gender and race disparities in weight gain among offenders prescribed antidepressant and antipsychotic medications
... and antipsychotic (Chaggar et ...and antipsychotic use, as these agents dis- rupted glucose metabolism (Barnard et ...some antipsychotic agents ...and antipsychotic use may have a moderating ...
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The impact of facility characteristics on the use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes: a cross-sectional study
... level antipsychotic rates were ...of antipsychotic therapy, it is important to explore the relationship be- tween the NH environment and the prescription of ...
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The effects of antipsychotic medications on microbiome and weight gain in children and adolescents
... atypical antipsychotic drugs (also known as second-generation antipsychotics, or SGAs) has increased in the pediatric population, espe- cially within the last decade, because of their effective- ness and much ...
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Use of long-acting antipsychotic medications: practical issues
... LAI antipsychotic medication for individuals with schizo- phrenia who prefer such treatment after an acute episode or when necessary to prevent hidden non-adherence (whether intentional or unintentional) to ...
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