Patient therapeutic adherence lies at the core of mental health care. Health Care
professionals and organizations play a major role in promoting adherence among people …

Most guidelines recommend long-term, indefinite neuroleptic (or antipsychotic) treatment for
people with schizophrenia, recurrent psychosis or bipolar disorder, on the basis that these …

Purpose Neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs reduce psychotic symptoms, but how they
achieve these effects and how the drugs' effects are experienced by people who take them …

Background The use of psychotropic medication is often the first line of treatment for people
with mental distress. However, many service users discontinue their prescribed medication …

The present study explores people's experience of living with antipsychotic medication side‐
effects. Qualitative data were gathered through semistructured interviews with 10 mental …

Studies of antipsychotic medication, which are increasingly prescribed for a broad range of
problems and circumstances, rarely ask the people who take them to describe their …

The development of severe mental health conditions is strongly linked to our environments,
particularly experiences of trauma and adversity. However treatments for severe mental …

Many mental health service users decide to discontinue their psychotropic medication at
some stage in the treatment process; however, few studies have captured these …

Purpose To explore supports and coping strategies used during attempts to discontinue
antipsychotic medication and test for associations with success. Method 144 people who …

Background Increasing number of service users diagnosed with schizophrenia and
psychosis are being discharged from specialist secondary care services to primary care …