Effectiveness of Providing Information on Antipsychotic Medication to Patients with Psychotic Disorders: An Integrative Review

Abstract

The aim of this integrative literature review is to describe the information provided to patients with psychotic disorders regarding their medication and to consider the effectiveness of providing such information. Searches of four databases identified 16 articles that met inclusion criteria. Results indicated that patients had relatively poor knowledge about their medications overall. Knowledge about side effects was found to improve significantly following education, with better knowledge leading to positive patient outcomes including increased adherence. Findings offer a comprehensive description of antipsychotic medication information provided to patients and an indication of the positive impact of information provision.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the University of Eastern Finland for its support of the arrangements and funding related to a grammatical inspection of the English language.

Authors’ contributions

In this review all authors were contributed to the conception and the design. The literature search conducted by ML, study selection ML and EL, independent review and the quality appraisal conducted by ML and EL. Data analysis ML. The manuscript preparation was contributed by all authors.

Disclosure of interest

The authors report no actual or potential conflicts of interest.

Ethical statement

An ethics statement is not applicable because this study is based exclusively on published literature. We have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Funding

There was no source of funding. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. All authors confirm agreement with the final statement.