Patients’ and clinicians’ attitude towards long-acting depot antipsychotics in subjects with a first episode of psychosis | Zendy

Matthias Kirschner | Zendy; Anastasia Theodoridou | Zendy; Paolo FusarPoli | Zendy; Stefan Kaiser | Zendy; Matthias Jäger | Zendy

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Patients’ and clinicians’ attitude towards long-acting depot antipsychotics in subjects with a first episode of psychosis

Author(s) -

Matthias Kirschner,

Anastasia Theodoridou,

Paolo FusarPoli,

Stefan Kaiser,

Matthias Jäger

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2045-1261

pISSN - 2045-1253

DOI - 10.1177/2045125312464106

Subject(s) - psychosis , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , pediatrics , psychotherapist

The acceptance and use of long-acting depot antipsychotics has been shown to be influenced by the attitudes of patients and clinicians. Depot treatment rates are low across countries and especially patients with first-episode psychosis are rarely treated with depot medication. The aim of this article was to review the literature on patients' and clinicians' attitudes towards long-acting depot antipsychotics in subjects with first-episode psychosis.

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