Opinions of French patients with schizophrenia regarding injectable medication.

Background: Use of patient-reported outcomes to assess the care of individuals with schizophrenia is increasing. We describe a survey (questionnaire) that evaluates patient opinions on long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication.

Methods: Psychiatrists throughout France selected consenting patients with schizophrenia who had received at least three months' treatment with a long-acting injectable antipsychotic (either typical or atypical) as outpatients to be interviewed by professional interviewers.

Factors associated with medication non-adherence in patients suffering from schizophrenia: a cross-sectional study in a universal coverage health-care system.

Objective: To quantify the factors associated with non-adherence to medication among stable patients suffering from schizophrenia in the context of universal access to care.

Methods: This naturalistic, multicentric study was conducted in 15 French public hospitals in a region of south-eastern France during a 1 week period in 2008. All consecutive outpatients with stable schizophrenia were recruited.

An investigation of semantic priming in schizophrenia using a new priming paradigm.

In the present study, twenty schizophrenic patients and twenty healthy controls were tested in a new priming paradigm that allows a clear distinction to be made between automatic, perceptual priming effects and effects related to decision bias. Participants had to identify briefly presented masked target words preceded by clearly visible primes that were semantically related to the target or not. Target presentation duration corresponded to a pre-determined perceptual threshold for each participant, and a two-alternative forced-choice methodology was used.