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Behavioral Effects of Drug Therapy on Psychogeriatric Inpatients. II. Multivitamin Supplement
Author(s) -
ALTMAN HAROLD,
MEHTA DINESH,
EVENSON RICHARD C.,
SLETTEN IVAN W.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1973.tb01684.x
Subject(s) - medicine , multivitamin , drug , intensive care medicine , psychopharmacology , pharmacotherapy , geriatrics , psychiatry , pharmacology , vitamin
ABSTRACT: Psychogeriatric inpatients were treated with a B‐complex and C vitamin preparation (Albee with C) for six weeks in a double‐blind study. (Total N = 132.) They were rated on the MIBS, a new inpatient behavior form that involves 11 factored scales. One clinically and statistically significant finding emerged: there was a striking decrease in pathologic manifestations on the MIBS Excitement scale for a non‐schizophrenic subgroup of the vitamin‐treated sample compared to the placebo sample. Implications of this finding are discussed in terms of a detailed examination of the Excitement scale and in terms of a literature review of the effects of vitamin therapy on the behavior of psychogeriatric patients.