Accessible summary• The attitudes of mental health professionals towards medication play a
crucial and influential role in service users' uptake of treatments. Evidence suggests that …

Utilization of long‐acting antipsychotic injections (depots) shows wide regional variation. In
many countries, community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) administer depots but their concerns …

BackgroundDepot antipsychotic medication is used widely in the treatment and prophylaxis
of severe mental illness. AimsTo review the literature on patient and nurse satisfaction with …

Psychiatric nurses' attitudes to depots have only been explored in the UK. We conducted a
cross‐sectional attitudinal study for Hong Kong psychiatric nurses and also conducted …

BackgroundThe attitudes of staff and patients have been demonstrated to influence the
acceptance of long-acting injections (LAIs) or depot antipsychotics. AimsTo examine the …

Objective: This study examines attitudes of mental health professionals about the use and
usefulness of depot antipsychotic medications and determines similarities and differences in …

In spite of their well known advantages, depot antipsychotics are seldom prescribed in the
treatment of schizophrenia. A frequently stated reason is the patient's objection to depot …

Little has been written on the subjective experiences of people who receive depot injections
in the community. The authors of this paper have identified distinct gaps in the literature in …

Some clinicians believe that antipsychotic depot injections are unacceptable to patients.
This cross-sectional study investigated patients' attitudes regarding antipsychotics, and …

Accessible summary• The aim of this audit was to review current practice within a rural
mental health service area on the monitoring and documentation of side effects of …