Patients’ Opinions of Olanzapine and Risperidone Following Long-term Treatment: Results from a Cross-sectional Survey
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The present study compares the subjective responses of patients in the stable phase of schizophrenia being treated with either olanzapine or risperidone. METHODS: Several well-established, self-report inventories were used in this investigation, providing a means of assessing the impact of these medications from the perspective of the patient. RESULTS: Patients randomly sampled from a continuing care clinic had been receiving treatment with olanzapine and risperidone for an average of 140 weeks and 225 weeks, respectively. The two treatment groups report highly positive attitudes toward their medication and a relatively high overall level of well-being and health-related quality of life. All patients report high levels of satisfaction with the mental health services they receive and their general health status. Olanzapine-treated patients were more likely to report reduced social and family interaction, as well as reduced sexual behavior and less participation in active recreational and pastime activities. Patients on olanzapine also reported greater difficulty in thinking clearly and more feelings of uselessness and of being lost and alone. The occurrence of antipsychotic-induced tardive dyskinesia and akathisia was low in both treatment groups. DISCUSSION: Results point to a high level of subjective tolerability for both olanzapine and risperidone, with few differences between the two medications on the subjective dimensions of outcome assessed in this study. Future studies should expand on the findings here, building on the limitations toward a large study including a comparison group receiving long-term treatment with typical antipsychotics. Ultimately, the goal should be the incorporation of patient-oriented assessments into routine clinical practice. This is particularly important given the relationship among satisfaction with treatment, compliance, and quality of life.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".