Desired and undesired effects of antipsychotic treatment from a patients' perspective: The psychometric evaluation of a self-rating instrument

PhD ceremony: Mr. H.A. Wolters, 14.45 uur, Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

Thesis: Desired and undesired effects of antipsychotic treatment from a patients' perspective: The psychometric evaluation of a self-rating instrument

Promotor(s): prof. D. Wiersma, prof. R.J. van den Bosch

Faculty: Medical Sciences

 

For patients with psychotic vulnerability, medication non-adherence increases the risk for a new psychotic episode and hospital re-admission. The thesis describes the development of the Subjects' Response to Antipsychotics (SRA) questionnaire, an instrument for measuring the patient experience with antipsychotic medication properly and systematically. The SRA questionnaire is a tool to measure in a systematic way treatment effects of antipsychotic drugsfrom a patients' perspective, to adjust the treatment as well possible as to the patient and to improve quality of care.