Do Atypical Antipsychotics Differ in Determining Long-term Outcome of First Episode Schizophrenia? A Naturalistic Outcome Study in India

Abstract

Antipsychotic medications form the mainstream of treatment in schizophrenia. These drugs have several short term as well long term advantage. It is not known if atypical antipsychotics have the long-term effect in improving outcome and meeting expectations (1,2,3). The present study examined usage and association of antipsychotics drugs with clinical outcome a long-term naturalistic study