Consumer strategies for coping with antipsychotic medication side effects

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-77

  Meehan, Tom ^a   Stedman, Terry ^a   Wallace, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Park   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antipsychotic medication; consumer strategies; management; side effects

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONSUMER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIZZINESS; EATING HABIT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSOMNIA; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; RESTLESSNESS; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP; TENSION; WEIGHT GAIN; XEROSTOMIA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; WEIGHT GAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952847845     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10398562.2010.539612     Document Type: Article

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