クワバラ　ヒトシ   KUWABARA Hitoshi   桑原　斉    所属   埼玉医科大学  医学部 神経精神科・心療内科    職種   教授
論文種別	学術雑誌(原著)
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Factors affecting clinicians' decision as to whether to prescribe psychotropic medications or not in treatment of tic disorders
掲載誌名	正式名：BRAIN&DEVELOPMENT ISSNコード：03877604
出版社	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
巻・号・頁	34(1),39-44頁
著者・共著者	Hitoshi Kuwabara,Toshiaki Kono,Takafumi Shimoda,Yukiko Kano
発行年月	2012/01
概要	Using clinical data, a retrospective investigation was carried out to elucidate factors and/or symptom severity affecting the clinicians' decision-making as to whether or not psychotropic medications should be prescribed for tic disorders. For this purpose, medical records on a total of 75 patients with tic disorders were collected and scrutinized. Of the total, 36 patients were found to have been given psychotropics on their first visit to our facility. With respect to the total scores of motor tics on the YGTSS, vocal tics on the YGTSS, the GAF score and age, the subjects were divided into two groups one with psychotropic medications prescribed and the other without any psychotropic medication at the first examination and compared by use of t-test. With respect to comorbid neuropsychiatric disorders and the sex, the two groups were compared using Chi square test. To see which one of factors had influenced the treating clinicians' decision to use or not to use psychotropic drugs at the first examination, analyses were made using the logistic regression model with those factors assigned for covariants and the prescription or no-prescription of psychotropic medications for dependent
DOI	10.1016/j.braindev.2011.01.003
PMID	21288673