Real-world effectiveness of long acting aripiprazole: Treatment persistence and its correlates in the Italian clinical practice.
Psychiatry Res
; 272: 698-706, 2019 02.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
To identify the variables that are associated with persistence to Aripiprazole-Long Acting (A-LAI), in adult patients with schizophrenia.METHODS:
Observational, retrospective, non-interventional study involving 261 patients with schizophrenia.RESULTS:
Eighty-six percent of study subjects were persistent for at least 6 months. All subjects with baseline CGI-S of 1 or 2, 95% of subjects with CGI-S of 3, 86% with CGI-S of 4, 82% of subjects with CGI-S of 5, 73% of subjects with CGI of 6 and 90% of subjects with CGI of 7 were persistent. A-LAI treatment continuation rate was higher in patients with 1) baseline CGI scoreâ¯≤â¯4; 2) schizophrenia dimension (LDPS) mania scoreâ¯≤â¯5; 3) psychotic spectrum schizoid scoreâ¯≤â¯11.CONCLUSIONS:
A relatively high number of patients (nâ¯=â¯225, 86%) were persistent to A-LAI for at least 6 months. Not surprisingly, very severe patients were more unlikely to be persistent. However, it is noteworthy that a large number of subjects with high CGI score at the time when A-LAI was started (82% of subjects with CGI-S of 5, 73% of subjects with CGI of 6 and 90% of subjects with CGI of 7) were persistent. Larger, controlled, prospective and longer studies are warranted.Palavras-chave
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Esquizofrenia
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Antipsicóticos
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Aripiprazol
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Ano de publicação:
2019
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