Integrating Psychotropic Medication Into the Care of People With Mental Disorders in a Prayer Camp in Ghana

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a bundled intervention of psychotropic drugs and daily contact with a nurse for people with mental health disorders in a prayer camp and secondly to assess whether the attitudes of the prayer camp staff toward mental health disorders and conventional medicines remain the same after the intervention.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Ghana Medical School
• Treatments: Antipsychotic Agents; Fluoxetine; Olanzapine; Psychotropic Drugs; Risperidone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. > 18 years,<70

2. Will benefit from treatment

3. Not suffering from physical condition

4. Resident at the prayer camp

5. Not likely to be discharged from camp within six weeks

6. Speaks either English or twi

7. Able to give consent

8. Not already on medication

Exclusion Criteria:

1. likely to be discharged within 6 weeks of commencement of medication

2. Patients already on medication