@article{ref1,
title="Antipsychotic overdosing and polypharmacy in schizophrenic delinquents explored",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2019",
author="Günther, M. P. and Kirchebner, J. and Kling, S. and Lau, S.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="A logistic regression model for 289 cases of schizophrenic offenders in a Swiss forensic hospital between 1995 and 2016 revealed the following factors for above average levels of antipsychotic overdosing and polypharmacy: Odds for overdosing increased in absence of a personality disorder (237%), for each point increase in emotional withdrawal (63.5%) and motor retardation (71.7%), and decreased for poor rapport (42.3%) recorded at admission. Odds for polypharmacy increased with complaints about physicians (157%), for each point increase in IQ (3.6%; range = 65-131, <i>M</i> = 92, <i>SD</i> = 14), reduction of the security level of the ward (36.8%; four levels), and for each point increase in poor attention (27.6%) at admission. It decreased with each previous conviction (10.9%; range = 1-21, <i>M</i> = 3, <i>SD</i> = 2), breaking of rules (46.4%) and the administration of compulsory measures (55.7%) on the ward, a poor legal prognosis (29.4%, four levels), and each point increase in grandiosity (40.3%), passive social withdrawal (42.3%), and depressive symptoms (38.7%) at admission.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X19895903",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X19895903"
}