Difference Of Satisfaction Between Patients With Schizophrenia

In the article “Difference of satisfaction with medication between patients with schizophrenia treated with typical antipsychotics and atypical antipsychotics”, they authors trying to gather data based on the annoyances of side-effects and psychotic symptoms with taking typical and atypical antipsychotics and with the satisfaction with medication of patients with schizophrenia. They also assessed atypical antipsychotics were superior to typical antipsychotics based on subjective indices. Typical antipsychotics are also known as first generation antipsychotics drugs these class of drugs can reduce the positive and disorganized symptoms schizophrenia but little or no effect on the negative symptoms, perhaps because their primary mechanism of …show more content…
Sasayama et al, they used the Purdue pegboard test to assess the manual dexterity in patients with schizophrenia and healthy patients which was the control group. The experiment consisted of 93 patients with schizophrenia and 93 healthy patients as the control group. They were recruited from an outpatient clinic of the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Participants both from the control and the patient groups were excluded if they had a prior history of central nervous system disease or severe head injury, substance abuse or dependence. Participants were measured by a Purdue pegboard test and a handgrip force. They use the handgrip to measure the sedative effects induced by prescribed drugs. It is measured by using a digital handgrip dynamometer by using their right hand. They were asked to use their maximum strength by gripping while standing up right and keeping their active arm stretched down close to the body. There found that there was significant difference between the two groups using the handgrip force while currently taking benzodiazepines, typical or atypical …show more content…
Before I thought that schizophrenics were just crazy people not thinking what really goes on in a life of a schizophrenic. It a very tragic mental disorder to live with because it not easy to get under control without the necessary help and medication. With every disorder it is very important to get knowledgeable about the illness which might make it easier to cope with and understand what is going on with our body. It is also helpful join a support group so that they can relate to someone that is going to the same thing are. However, if that patient has more negative symptoms that might not want to form social relationships they might want to stay home and isolate themselves from everyone