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A multidisciplinary study of the management of neuroleptic medication in schizophrenia: Educational and collaborative approaches
ISRCTN ISRCTN93636537
DOI 10.1186/ISRCTN93636537
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Public title A multidisciplinary study of the management of neuroleptic medication in schizophrenia: Educational and collaborative approaches
Scientific title
Acronym N/A
Serial number at source G9322371
Study hypothesis 1. To investigate the determinants of psychotic patients' adherence to prescribed neuroleptic medication
2. To compare two different approaches to enhancing patients' adherence to prescribed neuroleptic medication
Lay summary
Ethics approval Not provided at time of registration
Study design Randomised controlled trial
Countries of recruitment United Kingdom
Disease/condition/study domain Schizophrenia
Participants - inclusion criteria Patients suffering from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder admitted to acute psychiatric wards in the North West of England and North Wales.
Participants - exclusion criteria Not provided at time of registration
Anticipated start date 01/06/1995
Anticipated end date 01/06/2000
Status of trial Completed
Patient information material
Target number of participants 228
Interventions 1. Compliance intervention (patients educated about benefits of neuroleptic medication)
2. Alliance intervention (structured intervention in which patients are encouraged to rationally appraise the costs and benefits of their neuroleptic medication)
3. Treatment as usual
Primary outcome measure(s) 1. Attitudes towards neuroleptic medication as measured by the Drug Attitudes Inventory
2. Psychotic symptoms as measured by the Positive and Negative Syndromes Scale
Secondary outcome measure(s) Not provided at time of registration
Sources of funding Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)
Trial website
Publications Articles directly relating to the trial itself:
1. Rogers, A., Day, J., Wood, P., Randall, F., Healy, D. and Bentall, R.P. The meaning and management of neuroleptic medication: A study of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Social Science and Medicine, 47, 1313-1323, 1998. = PMID: 9783874.
2. Rogers, A., Day, J.C., Randall, F. and Bentall, R.P. Patients' understanding and participation in a trial designed to improve the management of anti-psychotic medication: a qualitative study. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 38, 203, 720-727, 2003. = PMID: 14689177.
3. Day, J.C., Bentall, R.P., Roberts, C., Randall, F., Rogers, A., Cattell, D., Healy, D., Wood, P., and Reid, C. Adherence with antipsychotic medication: The impact of clinical variables and relationships with health professionals. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62, 717-724, 2005 = PMID: 15997012.

Papers peripheral to the main aims of the trial based on the data we collected:
1. Foster, J., Finlayson, S., Bentall, R.P., Day, J., Randall, F., Wood, P., Reid, D., Rogers, A. and Healy, D. The perceived expressed emotion in staff scale. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 10, 109-117, 2003.
2. Randall, F., Corcoran, R., Day, J. C., & Bentall, R. P. (2001). Attention, theory of mind and causal attributions in people with paranoid delusions: A preliminary investigation. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 8, 287-294.
Contact name Professor  Richard  Bentall
  Address Psychology Department
University of Manchester
Coupland 1 Building
Oxford Road
  City/town Manchester
  Zip/Postcode M13 9PL
  Country United Kingdom
  Email
Sponsor Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)
  Address 20 Park Crescent
  City/town London
  Zip/Postcode W1B 1AL
  Country United Kingdom
  Tel +44 (0)20 7636 5422
  Fax +44 (0)20 7436 6179
  Email clinical.trial@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
  Sponsor website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk
Date applied 23/10/2000
Last edited 30/07/2009
Date ISRCTN assigned 23/10/2000
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