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Ziprasidone for schizophrenia and severe mental illness.

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BACKGROUND:Typical antipsychotic drugs are widely used as the first line treatment for people with schizophrenia. However, the atypical class of antipsychotic drugs are making important inroads into this approach. Atypical is a widely used term used to describe some antipsychotics which have a low propensity to produce movement disorders, sedation and raised serum prolactin. There is some suggestion that the different adverse effect profiles of the atypical antipsychotic group make them more acceptable to people with schizophrenia. Ziprasidone is one of the newer atypicals with a high serotonin/dopamine receptor affinity. OBJECTIVES:To determine the effects of ziprasidone compared with placebo, typical and other atypical antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia and related psychoses. SEARCH STRATEGY:Electronic searches of Biological Abstracts (1980-1999), The Cochrane Library (Issue 1, 1999), The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's Register (January 1999), EMBASE (1980-1999), MEDLINE (1966-1999), LILACS (1982-1996), PSYNDEX (1977-1995) and PsycLIT (1974-1999) were undertaken. In addition, pharmaceutical databases on the Dialog Corporation Datastar and Dialog services were searched. References of all identified studies were searched for further trials. Pharmaceutical companies and authors of trials were contacted. SELECTION CRITERIA:All randomised controlled trials that compared ziprasidone to other treatments for schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like psychoses were included by independent assessment. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS:Citations and, where possible, abstracts were independently inspected by reviewers, papers ordered, re-inspected and quality assessed. Data were independently extracted. Data were excluded if loss to follow up was greater than 50%. For homogeneous dichotomous data the risk ratio (RR), 95% confidence interval (CI) and, where appropriate, the number needed to treat (NNT) were calculated on an intention-to-treat basis. For continuous data, weighted mean differences were calculated (WMD). All data were inspected for heterogeneity. MAIN RESULTS:Data for this compound range from very short (1 week) studies of the intramuscular preparation, to trials lasting over six months. For measures of mental state ziprasidone seems more effective than placebo (RR 0.8 CI 0.7-0.9) and as effective as haloperidol (RR 0.8 CI 0.7-1). It is less likely than haloperidol to cause movement disorders (RR 0.4 CI 0.2-0.6), but may cause more nausea and vomiting (RR 2.1 CI 1.2-3.8). The injected form of the drug may cause more pain at the injection site than haloperidol (RR 5.3 CI 1.3-22). REVIEWER'S CONCLUSIONS:Currently data are limited. Ziprasidone may be an effective antipsychotic with less extrapyramidal effects than haloperidol. It also may, however, cause more nausea and vomiting than the typical drugs, and, at present, there is no data suggesting that it is different to other atypical compounds. Well planned, conducted and reported long term randomised trials are needed if ziprasidone is to be accepted into everyday use.

journal_name

Cochrane Database Syst Rev

journal_title

The Cochrane database of systematic reviews

authors

Bagnall A,Lewis RA,Leitner ML,Kleijnen J

doi

10.1002/14651858.CD001945

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-01-01 00:00:00

pages

CD001945

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issn

1469-493X

pii

CD001945

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Ziprasidone for schizophrenia and severe mental illness.