Determination of the antipsychotics prescribed in Maringá Municipal Hospital

Abstract

The therapeutic class of antipsychotic is among the most used medicines for the treatment of schizophrenia and may be divided in typical and atypical. Schizophrenia causes a severe disruption of the brain along with an impairment of the individual’s capacity for work or interpersonal relationships. This present study meant to quantifying the prescription of typical and atypical antipsychotics in Maringá Municipal Hospital Dra. Thelma Villanova Kasprowicz in the year of 2005. The information for theoretical foundation was obtained from databases such as CAPES, Pubmed, Scielo, and from textbooks and articles from the COMUT service. It was verified that the most used class of the antipsychotics was the typical ones. This result was already expected because it refers to a public hospital where economical considerations are a matter of choice. Another important factor about the atypical medicines under this research was the fact that the risperidone drug is the only standardized medication in the institution; the others are only used through free samples that doctors are given by the pharmaceutical laboratories. Most people, predominately female, who suffer from the disruption of psychosis, are between 22 and 50 years old.