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dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Andrea L
dc.contributor.authorGardner, David M
dc.contributor.authorKisely, Steve
dc.contributor.authorCooke, Charmaine A
dc.contributor.authorKutcher, Stanley P
dc.contributor.authorHughes, Jean
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-11T22:01:48Z
dc.date.available2023-06-11T22:01:48Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn1359-1045en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1359104515617518en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/407969
dc.description.abstractThere are significant controversies regarding rising antipsychotic prescription trends in children and adolescents. Many pharmacoepidemiology trend studies have been published, and interpretations of these data are helpful in explaining what is happening in prescribing practices, but not why these patterns exist. There is a lack of qualitative data in this area, and the experience of prescribing antipsychotics to children and adolescents has not been adequately researched. We conducted a qualitative study using an interpretive phenomenological analysis of physicians' experiences of antipsychotic prescribing to children and adolescents. Prescribers participated in individual interviews and a focus group. We used a staged approach for data analysis of transcriptions. In all, 11 physicians including psychiatrists and general practitioners participated in our study. We identified themes related to context, role and identity, and decision-making and filtering. Struggles with health system gaps were significant leading to the use of antipsychotics as substitutes for other treatments. Physicians prescribed antipsychotics to youth for a range of indications and had significant concerns regarding adverse effects. Our results provide knowledge regarding the prescribers' experience of antipsychotics for children and adolescents. Important gaps exist within the health system that are creating opportunities for the initiation and continued use of these agents.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom634en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto648en_US
dc.relation.ispartofissue4en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalClinical Child Psychology and Psychiatryen_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume21en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPharmacology and pharmaceutical sciencesen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode320221en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3214en_US
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicineen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPsychology, Clinicalen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPsychology, Developmentalen_US
dc.titleSystem struggles and substitutes: A qualitative study of general practitioner and psychiatrist experiences of prescribing antipsychotics to children and adolescentsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articlesen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMurphy, AL; Gardner, DM; Kisely, S; Cooke, CA; Kutcher, SP; Hughes, J, System struggles and substitutes: A qualitative study of general practitioner and psychiatrist experiences of prescribing antipsychotics to children and adolescents, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2016, 21 (4), pp. 634-648en_US
dcterms.licensehttp://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/en_US
dc.date.updated2021-09-15T01:04:25Z
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gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).en_US
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