Attitude towards antipsychotics among out‐patients with schizophrenia in Nigeria

Adewuya, Abiodun O.; Ola, Bolanle; Mosaku, Samuel Kolawole; Fatoye, F O; Eegunranti, Adekunle B.

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.2005.00745.x

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“…This decision would be based on the belief that Western medicine provides a rapid palliative action, whereas traditional Chinese medicine is believed to produce a slow but curative or prophylactic action [22]. We presumed that subjects in Beijing had more negative attitudes toward medication due to a higher employment rate; because employment was associated with negative attitudes toward medication in previous studies [29][30][31]. However this hypothesis was not supported by our data.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…Previous reports from Western or African countries have revealed that subjective responses to medication were associated with side effects [29,31,32], psychopathology [18,29,[31][32][33], and employment status [29][30][31], but were independent of other sociodemographic variables or length of illness [18,[30][31][32][33][34]. In this study, however, age and gender (China) and length of illness (Japan), were significantly associated with DAI-30, but employment status showed no significant association.…”

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Attitudes toward taking medication among outpatients with schizophrenia: cross-national comparison between Tokyo and Beijing

Kuroda

Sun

Lin

et al. 2008

Environ Health Prev Med

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Objectives The aim of this study was to compare attitudes toward medication and associated factors for patients with schizophrenia in Japan and China. Methods Age-group matched samples were drawn from outpatients in Tokyo (N = 76) and Beijing (N = 76) according to the same inclusion/exclusion criteria. Psychotropic prescription and attitudes toward medication were measured using Drug Attitude Inventory-30 (DAI-30) and an original questionnaire regarding beliefs about psychiatric medication. Stepwise regression analysis of the DAI-30 data was performed for each group. Results Japanese subjects were prescribed significantly larger amounts of antipsychotics. Polypharmacy of antipsychotics and concurrent use of anticholinergics, anxiolytics, or hypnotics were more frequently found among subjects in Tokyo than among those in Beijing. However, subjects in Tokyo and Beijing had similar subjective responses to medication, subjective evaluation of sideeffects, and complaints about overuse of psychotropics. Subjects in Tokyo complained less about physician's overreliance on medication and were less concerned about medication cost than those in Beijing. In Tokyo, longer duration of illness and lower subjective distress caused by side effects predicted a more positive subjective response, while female gender, younger age, and lower Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale score were independently correlated with a better subjective response in Beijing. Conclusions Subjective acceptance of multiple medications is greater for patients in Japan than those in China. Determinants of subjective response to medication varied between Japan and China.

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confidence: 54%

Attitudes toward taking medication among outpatients with schizophrenia: cross-national comparison between Tokyo and Beijing

Kuroda

Sun

Lin

et al. 2008

Environ Health Prev Med

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“…Several studies have shown that a negative attitude toward medication was associated with the presence of symptoms [9,30] and global psychopathology [25,26,29,32]. But this study showed that drug attitude was not affected significantly by global psychopathology, as assessed by the CGIS Scale.…”

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“…Employment was a significant predictive factor for positive attitude [29], but other studies have revealed that employment was a significant predictive factor for negative attitude [9,25,30,31]. In this study, we found that drug attitude was not affected significantly by occupational status.…”

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Social Interaction and Drug Attitude Effectiveness in Patients with Schizophrenia

2011

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This study aimed to explore the relationship between dosage of paliperidone and drug attitude, and also clarify the factors associated with drug attitude, using Intention-to-Treat (ITT) analysis. Three hundred thirty-one patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, who prescribed paliperidone between April 2008 and April 2009, from 10 hospitals in Taiwan were enrolled. By structural equation modeling, inpatient/outpatient status associated with occupation status, sex, and score on the Clinical Global Impression-Severity (CGIS) Scale. The score on the Personal and Social Performance (PSP) Scale associated with occupation status, inpatient/outpatient status, and the score on the CGIS Scale. The scores on the DAI-10 associated with the score on the PSP Scale and age. Good drug attitude and medication adherence significantly related to good social interaction. We should enhance the drug attitude and medication adherence of patients with schizophrenia who have poor social interaction to improve the outcome of schizophrenia.

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Attitude towards second‐generation antipsychotics among patients with schizophrenia and their relatives

Karthik

Kulhara

Chakrabarti

2013

Human Psychopharmacology

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Attitude towards antipsychotics among out‐patients with schizophrenia in Nigeria

Abstract: Special attention should be paid to patients with these factors while designing programmes to improve overall compliance in patients with schizophrenia.

Cited by 62 publications

References 35 publications

Attitudes toward taking medication among outpatients with schizophrenia: cross-national comparison between Tokyo and Beijing

Attitudes toward taking medication among outpatients with schizophrenia: cross-national comparison between Tokyo and Beijing

Social Interaction and Drug Attitude Effectiveness in Patients with Schizophrenia

Attitude towards second‐generation antipsychotics among patients with schizophrenia and their relatives

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