Objectives: The antipsychotic drugs' effect on the appetite and body weight is a prominent negative factor during treatment of psychotic patients. Weight gain, in fact, increases mortality and morbidity risks and reduces self-esteem, worsens social adaptation and is one of the most common reasons of noncompliance. Methods: To investigate relations between body weight and adherence and to evaluate the role of a correct preventive information about side-effects of neuroleptic drugs, we examined 76 outpatients in monotherapy with antipsychotic drugs stabilized since one month. We excluded patients with medical problems or in treatment with body weight-interfering drugs. We used an ad hoc questionnaire elaborated on the possible interaction between drugs, body weight changes and food habits. A comparison between schizophrenic patients in our sample and the others outpatients was performed. Results and Conclusions: Results suggest that a correct information facilitates drug adherence also in patients who gain weight; the latter have a higher risk for Binge Eating Disorders.

Patologia del lobo frontale, depressione ed ansia : segni prodromici ed implicazioni terapeutiche / A.C. Altamura, R. Bassetti, A. Santini, E. Cattaneo, E.M. Mundo. - In: GIORNALE ITALIANO DI PSICOPATOLOGIA. - ISSN 1592-1107. - 11:Supplemento(2005 Mar), pp. 26-27.

Patologia del lobo frontale, depressione ed ansia : segni prodromici ed implicazioni terapeutiche

A.C. Altamura;E. Cattaneo;E.M. Mundo
2005

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Objectives: The antipsychotic drugs' effect on the appetite and body weight is a prominent negative factor during treatment of psychotic patients. Weight gain, in fact, increases mortality and morbidity risks and reduces self-esteem, worsens social adaptation and is one of the most common reasons of noncompliance. Methods: To investigate relations between body weight and adherence and to evaluate the role of a correct preventive information about side-effects of neuroleptic drugs, we examined 76 outpatients in monotherapy with antipsychotic drugs stabilized since one month. We excluded patients with medical problems or in treatment with body weight-interfering drugs. We used an ad hoc questionnaire elaborated on the possible interaction between drugs, body weight changes and food habits. A comparison between schizophrenic patients in our sample and the others outpatients was performed. Results and Conclusions: Results suggest that a correct information facilitates drug adherence also in patients who gain weight; the latter have a higher risk for Binge Eating Disorders.
depressione, patologia del lobo frontale
Settore MED/25 - Psichiatria
mar-2005
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