Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Psychotic Disorders

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for psychotic disorders.

Reviewed December 2011

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Title:   Interventions for psychotic symptoms concomitant with epilepsy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Little evidence to inform the treatment of psychosis in people with epilepsy. There is substantial evidence that people suffering from epilepsy have an increased risk of suffering from psychotic symptoms. These symptoms sometimes occur soon after or bef...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Antidepressants for agitation and psychosis in dementia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Psychosis and agitation frequently occur in older adults with dementia. Medications are often prescribed to treat these symptoms and antidepressants are increasingly used for these symptoms. We reviewed the evidence for the effectiveness and safety of a...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Chlorpromazine for treating aggression or agitation due to psychosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chlorpromazine was the first medicine specifically developed to treat psychoses as it helps people to feel less anxious, tense or angry. This review systematically examines the evidence to see how effective chlorpromazine is at reducing aggression or ag...
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Prompts to encourage appointment attendance for people with serious mental illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   First appointments at a mental health clinic can be a daunting prospect. Failure to attend is common, wastes time, and can result in important delays in getting proper care. A gentle prompt, near to the time of appointment, would, if effective, seem a c...
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Treatment for amphetamine psychosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A minority of individuals who use amphetamines develop full-blown psychosis requiring care at emergency departments or psychiatric hospitals. In such cases, symptoms of amphetamine psychosis commonly include paranoid and persecutory delusions as well as...
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Open general medical wards versus specialist psychiatric units for acute psychoses
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Psychosis is disturbance of a person's thinking that causes them to have false perceptions of the senses (hallucinations) and see the world in a different way from the majority (delusions). Psychosis can cause the sufferer to become very distressed. T...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   'As required' medication regimes for seriously mentally ill people in hospital
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Schizophrenia is a mental health problem whose symptoms can cause agitation, aggression and distress to those who have it. The drugs used to treat it are called antipsychotics and usually take several weeks to work. In the interim for people in hospit...
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Pharmacological treatments for psychosis-related polydipsia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Schizophrenia is a serious, chronic and relapsing mental illness with a worldwide lifetime prevalence of about one percent. An uncommon but serious complication of psychotic illness is polydipsia, the intake of more than three litres of fluids per day. ...
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Haloperidol alone or in combination for the treatment of mania
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Fifteen trials met the inclusion criteria and are included in the review. Interpretation of the results was hindered by the small total sample size and by the low quality of reporting of the included trials. There was some evidence that haloperidol was ...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   Cyclophosphamide versus methylprednisolone for lupus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Does cyclophosphamide work to treat central nervous system lupus (neuropsychiatric lupus)? One study of moderate quality provides the best evidence we have to answer this question. The study tested 32 people who had central nervous system lupus. The st...
Date:   Feb 2006
Title:   Risperidone alone or in combination for acute mania
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review included six trials and investigated the efficacy and tolerability of risperidone, an atypical antipsychotic, as treatment for mania compared to placebo or other medicines. High withdrawal rates from the trials limit the confidence that can ...
Date:   Oct 2005
Title:   Pharmacological treatment for psychotic depression
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The combination of an antidepressant with an antipsychotic may not be more effective than an antidepressant alone, but combination therapy may be more effective than an antipsychotic alone. Starting with the combination of an antidepressant and an antip...
Date:   Aug 2005
Title:   Benzodiazepines alone or in combination with antipsychotic drugs for acute psychosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In this review we estimated the effects of benzodiazepines (e.g. diazepam, lorazapam, midazolam, clonazepam), for controlling acutely disturbed behaviour and psychotic symptoms when compared with placebo, antipsychotic drugs such as haloperidol, or a co...
Date:   Aug 2005
Title:   Clotiapine for acute psychotic illnesses
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Clotiapine is an antipsychotic drug and is currently used in the management of acute psychotic symptoms in Argentina, Belgium, Israel, Italy, Luxemburg, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan. This review highlights limited evidence for the effects...
Date:   Jun 2004
Title:   Antipsychotic drugs for non-affective psychosis during pregnancy and postpartum
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Women who suffer with psychotic conditions who become pregnant are usually treated with antipsychotic drugs. The risks of harm to the offspring associated with exposure to these drugs, in utero or through breast-feeding, are unknown. We aimed to find go...
Date:   Jan 2004
Title:   Droperidol for schizophrenia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with acute and serious mental illnesses may become very disturbed and display aggressive, dangerous behaviour. Such emergency situations are managed with clinical skill, common sense and, possibly medication. Droperidol is one of the drugs used. ...
Date:   Sep 2003
Title:   Olanzapine compared to placebo or other medicine as treatment for mania
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   High withdrawal rates from the trials limit the confidence that can be placed on the results. Olanzapine was superior to placebo in reduction of manic symptoms both as monotherapy and combined with mood stabilizers, though caused weight gain. Olanzapine...
Date:   Nov 2002
Title:   Patient held clinical information for people with psychotic illnesses
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   It is important to seek cost-effective methods of improving the care and outcome of those with serious mental illnesses. Patient-held records, where the person with the illness holds all or some personal information relating to the course and care of their illness, are now the norm in some clinical settings.

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