Experience of Psychotropic Medication -An Interview Study of Persons with Psychosis.
Issues Ment Health Nurs
; 37(11): 820-828, 2016 Nov.
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ABSTRACT
Psychotropic drugs, particularly antipsychotic types, are a cornerstone of the treatment of people with psychosis. Despite numerous studies showing that drug treatment with psychotropic drugs initially alleviates psychiatric symptoms, the proportion of people with mental health problems and symptoms that do not follow doctors' prescriptions, thus exhibiting so-called non-adherence, is considerable. Non-adherence is predominantly seen as a clinical feature and as a patient characteristic that is especially due to patients' poor understanding that they are ill. There is also a widespread notion that non-adherence is of great disadvantage to the patient. This article is based on interviews with 19 persons diagnosed with psychosis. It challenges the notion of patients being either adherent or non-adherent to the doctor's orders. The findings show that persons with psychosis are active agents when it comes to adjusting medication. The interviewees created their own strategies to gain power over treatment with psychotropic drugs. The most common strategies were to adjust the doses or take breaks of varying lengths from the medication. These deviations from prescriptions were important to conceal, not only from their own psychiatrists, but from all psychiatric staff.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtornos Psicóticos
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Psicotrópicos
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Adesão à Medicação
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Issues Ment Health Nurs
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Article