2006
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-44462006005000021
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Polypharmacy and suicide attempts in bipolar disorder

Abstract: Our findings support the notion that the use of combination therapy in bipolar disorder may be related to severity of the BD, such as number of suicide attempts.

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“…Thus, monotherapy is an exception instead of a rule in BAD cases, which is one of the main difficulties for patients' treatment adherence (21) . It is also known that the simultaneous prescription of various drugs as a therapeutic strategy and the growing number of these agents in the market can contribute to enhance the beneficial effects of therapy, but can also result in unwanted effects and medication interactions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, monotherapy is an exception instead of a rule in BAD cases, which is one of the main difficulties for patients' treatment adherence (21) . It is also known that the simultaneous prescription of various drugs as a therapeutic strategy and the growing number of these agents in the market can contribute to enhance the beneficial effects of therapy, but can also result in unwanted effects and medication interactions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this study, the number of SAs was associated with polypharmacy, suggesting that the use of several medications in bipolar patients may be an indicator of disease severity, and therefore associated with an increased number of SAs 23 .…”
Section: Suicidal Behavior and Bipolar Disordermentioning
confidence: 63%
“…The patients with BMD are normally polymedicated (Zarate, Quiroz, 2003;Gazalle et al, 2007) and use, as an average, 6.3 ±2.9 medications, being 2.6 ±0.8 psychiatric (Table I). Along the study, after the first interview, a loss has occurred, due to patient's death.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In view of disease severity, the pharmacologic treatment is fundamental and aims to decrease the frequency of episodes, the disease severity, and improve the psycho-social consequences (Guscott, Taylor, 1994;Sproule, 2002). The concomitant use of several drugs for the treatment of BMD has increased in the late years (Gazalle et al, 2007), and one of the major difficulties in the treatment of these patients is the adherence to treatment. It was developed a review respecting treatment adherence in bipolar patients , where factors linked to medications (undesired effects, drug interactions, complex regimen), factors linked to patient (cognitive alterations, knowledge about the disease, personality), and factors linked to physician (interaction with patients) were verified as possible cause for the low adherence.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%