Trial reportBMC medical research methodology2012
Construct validity of 2 measures to assess reasons for antipsychotic discontinuation and continuation from patients' and clinicians' perspectives in a clinical trial.
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- Adherence to Antipsychotic Medication in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenic Patients: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical psychopharmacology · 2016Pooled it
- Confirmatory factor analysis of the quality of life scale and new proposed factor structure for the quality of life scale-revised.Schizophrenia research · 2017Trial
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- Clinical predictors of therapeutic response to antipsychotics in schizophrenia.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2014Review
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Abstract
backgroundLittle is known about the specific reasons for antipsychotic discontinuation or continuation from patients' or clinicians' perspectives. This study aimed to assess the construct validity of 2 new measures of the Reasons for Antipsychotic Discontinuation/Continuation (RAD): RAD-I (a structured interview assessing the patient's perspective) and RAD-Q (a questionnaire assessing the clinician's perspective).
methodsData were used from a 12-week antipsychotic trial of schizophrenia patients in which the RAD was administered at study entry and at study completion (or discontinuation). Construct validity was assessed through comparisons of RAD responses, clinicians' responses to a standard patient disposition form identifying reasons for patient's study discontinuation, and several standard psychiatric measures. Percent agreement quantified the correspondence between patient and clinician scores.
resultsPatients indicating lack of improvement/worsening of positive symptoms as a 'somewhat' to 'primary' reason for medication discontinuation had statistically significantly less improvement in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale positive score than patients not reporting these as a reason (concurrent validity). Similar results were observed for the RAD negative symptom, functional, social support, and adherence items, whereas the mood and cognitive items were not significantly associated with change scores on standard psychiatric measures. Responses to the RAD were also weakly associated with variables that theoretically should not be related to them (divergent validity). Level of agreement between the clinician- and patient-rated RAD scores was high (60%-100%).
conclusionsInitial validation of the RAD suggests that the instruments are valid tools for gathering detailed information regarding reasons for antipsychotic discontinuation and continuation from patients' and clinicians' perspectives.
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