Analysis of the attitudes towards the medication in ambulatory patients with diagnosis of schizophrenia

Abstract

Introduction The scale autoapplied Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI) [1] is an instrument to evaluate the subjective response to the neuroleptics in patients diagnosed of schizophrenia. We have used the brief version [2]. Objectives To study the possible relation between DAI and sociodemographic factors [3] as well as medical treatment [4] (references 3 and 4 are not available for this abstract). Methods A descriptive and comparative study. Sample of 30 patients with ambulatory follow-up from Oviedo. Sociodemographic data and drug prescription were collected. Results Comparative analysis: DAI and sociodemographic, drug prescription (Table 1). Correlation between DAI/age/I number of antipsychotics (Table 2). The comparative analysis only shows positive significant correlation between DAI and antidepressant treatment. Conclusions There is no correlation of DAI depending on the age and the number of antipsychotics. The antidepressant treatment in schizophrenic patients could be a predictor variable of better punctuation in DAI.