RT Journal Article
T1 Change in psychiatrists' attitudes towards the physical health care of patients with schizophrenia coinciding with the dissemination of the consensus on physical health in patients with schizophrenia
A1 Bobes, Julio
A1 Alegria, Ana Lucia
A1 Saiz González, María Dolores
A1 Barber, I
A1 Perez, JL
A1 Saiz Ruiz, J
AB PurposeTo evaluate the impact of the “Spanish Consensus on Physical Health in Patients with Schizophrenia” on psychiatrists’ evaluations of the physical health of patients with schizophrenia.MethodEpidemiological, non-interventional, national, multicentre study, with two retrospective, cross-sectional data collection stages in which 229 psychiatrists evaluated 1193 clinical records of patients with schizophrenia (ICD-10) seen in January and September of 2007.ResultsMean age of the patients was 39.7 ± 11.6 years, 65.5% were men, diagnosed for schizophrenia 14.0 ± 10.3 years ago. Forty percent of the patients suffer from a concomitant disease, the most prevalent being hypercholesterolemia (46.3%), hypertriglyceridaemia (33.5%) and arterial hypertension (26.0%). The difference in the number of patients who had all the physical measurements taken between the two cross-sectional evaluations was 13.8% (CI: 11.8%, 15.7%). The differences for each parameter were: weight 13.7% (CI: 11.7%, 15.6%), BMI 13.58% (CI: 11.6%, 15.5%), waist circumference 14.0% (CI: 12.0%, 15.39%), lipid profile 2.9% (CI: 1.9%, 3.9%) and glycaemia 2.6% (CI: 1.7%, 3.5%).ConclusionsThese results imply that the dissemination of the “Consensus on Physical Health in Schizophrenia Patients”, and possibly other actions, has made psychiatrists more aware of an integral approach to patients with schizophrenia, promoting increased monitoring of the physical health of these patients.
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 0924-9338
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/129188
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/129188
LA eng
NO Bobes J, Alegría AA, Saiz-Gonzalez MD, Barber I, Pérez JL, Saiz-Ruiz J. Change in psychiatrists' attitudes towards the physical health care of patients with schizophrenia coinciding with the dissemination of the consensus on physical health in patients with schizophrenia. Eur Psychiatry. 2011 Jul-Aug;26(5):305-12. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.04.004. Epub 2010 Jun 11. PMID: 20541373.
NO Bristol-Myers Squibb
NO Otsuka Pharmaceutical
DS Docta Complutense
RD 31 dic 2025