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Paliperidone palmitate: Experience in a community mental health unit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Abstract
Introduction
There are many jobs that offer advantages of treatment with long-acting injectable in psychosis.
Objective
To know the changes in the different variables after the start of paliperidone palmitate (PP).
Material and method
We performed a descriptive and retrospective study. Were evaluated patients who received maintenance therapy with PP during 48 months.
Results
The sample was composed of 29 patients: 72.4% men and 27.6% women. Average age of 46.21 years. In Figures 1, 2 and 3 show data obtained in relation to compliance with treatment, relapse, maintenance dose, number of admissions and visits to emergency departments respectively.
Conclusions
The administration of PP is associated with a higher level of compliance with treatment. The patients presented a lower number of relapses, hospitalizations and visits to the emergency room. The maintenance dose more used is 150 mg.
Disclosure of interest
The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
- Type
- e-Poster Viewing: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. s804 - s805
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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