RT Article
T1 Antipsychotic Overdosing and Polypharmacy in Schizophrenic Delinquents Explored
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 64
IS 9
SP 938
OP 952
A1 Günther, M. P.
A2 Kirchebner, J.
A2 Kling, S.
A2 Lau, Stephan
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/173855760X
AB A logistic regression model for 289 cases of schizophrenic offenders in a Swiss forensic hospital between 1995 and 2016 revealed the following factors for above average levels of antipsychotic overdosing and polypharmacy: Odds for overdosing increased in absence of a personality disorder (237%), for each point increase in emotional withdrawal (63.5%) and motor retardation (71.7%), and decreased for poor rapport (42.3%) recorded at admission. Odds for polypharmacy increased with complaints about physicians (157%), for each point increase in IQ (3.6%; range = 65-131, M = 92, SD = 14), reduction of the security level of the ward (36.8%; four levels), and for each point increase in poor attention (27.6%) at admission. It decreased with each previous conviction (10.9%; range = 1-21, M = 3, SD = 2), breaking of rules (46.4%) and the administration of compulsory measures (55.7%) on the ward, a poor legal prognosis (29.4%, four levels), and each point increase in grandiosity (40.3%), passive social withdrawal (42.3%), and depressive symptoms (38.7%) at admission.
K1 Antipsychotic dosing
K1 Forensic psychiatry
K1 Evidence-based treatment of schizophrenia
K1 Schizophrenic delinquents
K1 Antipsychotic polypharmacy
DO 10.1177/0306624X19895903