{"id":1103,"date":"2019-05-13T22:56:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2022-01-07T10:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T02:53:23","slug":"prescription-psychopharmacological-medications-management-common-mental-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/13\/prescription-psychopharmacological-medications-management-common-mental-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"The prescription of psychopharmacological medications in the management of common mental disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mounting burden of such disorders presents more of a challenge for the developing world, where only a minor percentage of the gross domestic product is allocated to health care. The roleof family physicians isfundamental in managing common psychiatricillnesses.Several studies have shown that the prevalence of psychiatric illnesses among Diperodon<\/a> patients visiting primary health care providers is high. The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in Pakistan ranged from 10% to 25% for men and 25% to 57% for women in an analysis of 20 community based studies. Sabooh et al reported the prevalence of common psychiatric illnesses in primary care settings to vary from 17% to 30%. In Pakistan, there are currently only 350 psychiatrists for a population of 150million. The high prevalence of psychiatricillnesses inprimary care clinics often leads to hasty diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. Evaluation and diagnosis of common mental disorders like anxiety and depression involves a challenge to the clinical ability, knowledge and experience of the family physicians. Due to the dearth of psychiatrists, most patients with psychiatric illnesses are being managed by family physicians. Therefore it is imperative to know how they fare when it comes to prescribing psychopharmacological medications and if adequate information about the disease is being provided. Providing adequate information about the disease and its management is of special importance in the treatment of patients with mental illnesses. There is evidence that adequate information helps improve patient cooperation, medication compliance, tolerance to unwanted effects and the efficacy of medications and reduce the rate of unwanted drug effects. The purpose of our study was to determine if patients who were prescribed psychopharmacological drugs by family physicians at a reputable community health center in Karachi, Pakistan receive adequate education about their disease and its management. We originally designed the questionnaire in English and then translated it into Urdu. To ensure that the original wordings were preserved, it was then back translated into English by three different non-medical individuals not related to the study. We then pre-tested this final Urdu questionnaire on 36 subjects to identify any shortcomings of the questionnaire. Some minor problems were identified and we made the appropriate modifications. Data from the pre-test was not included in the final analysis. The interviews were conducted by a group of senior medical students who were briefed about the study protocol and trained in survey techniques. The interviewers assembled at the CHC, before the start of the clinics. All patients were approached after their Mycophenolic acid<\/a> consultation was over, and they had received their prescriptions. After taking informed consent, they were interviewed, and their responses were recorded on the questionnaire. Throughout the period of data collection, the family physicians were unaware of the study going on outside their doors. This was intentional and important for the study design. During the interview, all participants were asked to show their prescriptions which were then noted down in the questionnaire. Before data entry, all the trade names were converted into generic names using PharmaGuide, and all psychopharmacological medications were coded into different classes according to their respective modes of action like anti-depressants, anxiolytics, etc. and their subtypes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mounting burden of such disorders presents more of a challenge for the developing world, where only a minor percentage of the gross domestic product is allocated to health care. The roleof family physicians isfundamental in managing common psychiatricillnesses.Several studies have shown that the prevalence of psychiatric illnesses among Diperodon patients visiting primary health care … Continue reading “The prescription of psychopharmacological medications in the management of common mental disorders”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bioactivescreeninglibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}