Effect of clinician-patient communication on compliance with flupentixol-melitracen in functional dyspepsia patients.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To explore whether clinician-patient communication affects adherence to psychoactive drugs in functional dyspepsia (FD) patients with psychological symptoms.

Methods

A total of 262 FD patients with psychological symptoms were randomly assigned to four groups. The patients in Groups 1-3 were given flupentixol-melitracen (FM) plus omeprazole treatment. Those in Group 1 received explanations of both the psychological and gastrointestinal (GI) mechanisms of the generation of FD symptoms and the effects of FM. In Group 2, only the psychological mechanisms were emphasized. The patients in Group 3 were not given an explanation for the prescription of FM. Those in Group 4 were given omeprazole alone. The primary endpoints of this study were compliance rate and compliance index t

SUBMITTER: Yan XJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4402313 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature