Setting: Ambulatory psychiatric care.
This study aimed to identify the predictors of psychiatric hospitalization during maintenance treatment with olanzapine-LAI and assessed four parameters: hospitalization prevalence, incidence rate, duration, and the time to first hospitalization.
The general aim of the study was to explore the feasibility and acceptability of including SMS medication reminders in the standard aftercare plan of users who are discharged from inpatient psychiatric units on maintenance antipsychotic medication.
No information is available on the predictors of psychiatric hospitalization during maintenance treatment with olanzapine long-acting injection (olanzapine-LAI) or how the risk of hospitalization differs between olanzapine-LAI and oral olanzapine.
In this 6-month maintenance study, psychiatric hospitalization was best predicted by previous suicide threats and prior psychiatric hospitalization, two predictors that were previously observed with oral antipsychotic therapy in the treatment of schizophrenia.
In clinically stable schizophrenia outpatients receiving olanzapine-LAI maintenance treatment, psychiatric hospitalization was best predicted by a history of suicide threats and prior psychiatric hospitalization.
Inherent in these occupations, however, are also factors (e.g., camaraderie, pre-enlistment screening) that may inoculate against the development or maintenance of psychiatric conditions.
For the purpose of the present study, we extracted the following variables from patients' charts: demographic characteristics, psychiatric diagnosis, history of maintenance treatments prior to lithium, current lithium dose, concurrent medications, and data on renal and thyroid functions.
Study participants were enrolled from outpatient psychiatric clinics and under maintenance treatment.
The argument also has important implications regarding the theoretical role of cognitive factors in the aetiology and maintenance of psychiatric conditions.
