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Problem
Many of us are led to believe that if something is new, it must be better than what we have been using. So we replace what was working and start using the new item, system, medication, etc. Sponsored by the NIMH, The Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) study, challenged the idea that newer antipsychotics are better than the older antipsychotics. Many were surprised by the findings, and you may be as well.
Read the following article and answer the questions below:
Oh, S., Lee, T., Kim, M., Kim, S., Lee, S., Cho, S., Kim, J., & Kwon, J. (2020). Effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs in schizophrenia: a 10-year retrospective study in a Korean tertiary hospital. npj Schizophr 6, 32 (2020).
A. What are the most common antipsychotics prescribed?
B. What was surprising about this study? Get the instant assignment help.
C. Why is this study, which compares the medications to one another, so important?
D. What concerns, if any, are raised from a study such as this?
E. What do you think are the benefits of the antipsychotics?
F. Should there be more studies such as this? Why or why not?