Informing patients about tardive dyskinesia: four-year follow up of a trial of patient education.
OBJECTIVE
This paper evaluates the effects of an educational intervention about tardive dyskinesia on knowledge and clinical stability at long-term follow up.


METHODS
Fifty-six patients receiving antipsychotic maintenance completed a questionnaire assessing their knowledge about tardive dyskinesia. After random allocation to either educational intervention or control group, their knowledge, clinical stability and rates of tardive dyskinesia were reassessed after four years.


RESULTS
Seventy per cent of patients completed the study. The patients in the educational group retained significantly more knowledge at follow up than at baseline but this knowledge was not significantly greater than that of the control group. There were no significant differences in the clinical outcomes between the groups.


CONCLUSIONS
Patients can retain a small but significant amount of information with a low risk of noncompliance. Discussion about tardive dyskinesia is necessary in the process of obtaining informed consent to treatment.
Chaplin
Robert
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South West London and St George's Mental Health Service NHS Trust, Springfield Hospital, 61 Glenburnie Road, London SW17 7DJ, UK. rchaplin@sghms.ac.uk
Timehin
Clive
C
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology; D004409:Dyskinesia, Drug-Induced / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D009460:Neurologic Examination / Q000187:drug effects; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016312:Treatment Refusal / Q000523:psychology
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents