SYMPOSIA

Poster Presentations
motivations for the use of antipsychotic prescription by psychiatrists.
Five hundred and sixty patients, who applied to the psychiatry clinic of the SSK Ankara Education and Research Hospital in 2004 and
were diagnosed with schizophrenia and 423 patients who presented to the same clinic (name changed to the Psychiatry Clinic of Dışkapı
Yıldırım Beyazıd Education and Research Hospital) in 2009 and were diagnosed with schizophrenia were included in the study. The data
were recorded on the data gathering form that we prepared and included socio-demographic information and details of medication use.
We determined that 77.5 percent of the schizophrenic patients were prescribed atypical antipsychotics in single or combined (typicalatypical
or atypical-atypical) form in 2004. Forty-five percent of patients were using typical antipschotics as monotheraphy or in
combination. In 2009, 91.7 percent of patients were using atypical antipschotics in single or combined form. Only 19.9 percent of patients
were taking typical antipschotics in single or combined form. Using atypical antipsychotics reduced the use of typical antipsychotics
by a significant amount ( χ2=246.26 and p