Dr. Mette Ødegaard Nielsen (Unit for Complicated Schizophrenia, Glostrup, Denmark) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss patient motivations and experiences of antipsychotic medication tapering at a clinic in Denmark.
Transcript
01:02 Nielsen interview
02:22 Tapering medication
04:09 Controversies around tapering
07:07 Debilitating effects of side effects
09:09 The tension between medication and side effects for the clinician
12:47 Top line findings
15:28 Psychotic symptom relapse
17:38 Differences by medication
19:43 Expectations from patients
21:47 Shared decision making
24:44 Mixed expectations and reality
27:20 Relapse
29:50 Close contact between patients and clinic staff Subscribe to the podcast here.
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