Affiliation:
1. Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Medical Psychology, University Hospital for Psychiatry I, Innsbruck, Austria
Abstract
Patients suffering from schizophrenia are at high risk for admission and treatment in locked units. This study investigated gender differences in the pharmacological emergency treatment of schizophrenia patients over a 21-year observation period. The current retrospective study was conducted at the Division of Psychiatry I of the Medical University Innsbruck. All adult patients (n = 845; 425 female) suffering from schizophrenia who were admitted involuntarily to one of the acute psychiatric units in the years 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017 were included in the study. In the years mentioned above, 590 schizophrenia patients (297 men, 293 women) admitted to a locked unit received pharmacological emergency treatment. With the exception of clozapine which was more frequently administered to men no significant differences between men and women were found in terms of the choice, dosage, and type of application of medication (antipsychotics and benzodiazepines). Since most treatment guidelines for schizophrenia do not consider gender differences at all, it is not surprising that acute treatment is almost the same for men and women. However, in times when individualized therapies gain more and more importance, the consideration of sex differences should be part of new treatment concepts.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Pharmacology (medical),Psychiatry and Mental health
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