Drug-induced akathisia as a cause of distress in spouse caregivers of cancer patients

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 209-212

  Wada, Mei ^a,b   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Wada, Makoto ^c   Wada, Tomomi ^c   Tada, Yukio ^a   Ishida, Mayumi ^a,d,e   Mizuno, Keiko ^a   Shioi, Atsuko ^a   Narabayashi, Masaru ^a   Iwamitsu, Yumi ^b   Onishi, Hideki ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Akathisia; Caregiver; Depression; Grief; Side effect

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; AZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CLOTIAZEPAM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SULPIRIDE; TRIAZOLAM;

AGED; AKATHISIA; CAREGIVER; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGY; SPOUSE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

AGED; AKATHISIA, DRUG-INDUCED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; AZEPINES; CAREGIVERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SPOUSES; SULPIRIDE; TERMINALLY ILL; TRIAZOLAM;

EID: 79956151582     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951511000071     Document Type: Article

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