Attitudes Toward Long-Term Medication Use—A Comparison Between Concerned Populations and a Sample From the German General Population: An Example of Real World Evidence

Conclusions Psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses were significantly more concerned about giving an (intragluteal) injection because of concerns about patients' fears of this administration method than their matched controls. In contrast, patients' concerns about receiving an injection did not differ from their matched controls. Furthermore, we found that psychiatrists tended to believe that giving an injection might be time-consuming than giving oral medication. These results may emphasize the fact that the low rate of depot medication use is derived from subjective reservations of medical staff rather than actual negative attitudes or fears of patients.
Source: Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Contributions Source Type: research