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

Phase 4 Completed 139 enrolled University of Ghana Medical School

RandomizedParallel-groupSingle-blindTreatment

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.

Timeline

Start: 2013-07
Primary completion: 2015-07
Completion: 2015-07

Publications

Ofori-Atta A, Attafuah J, Jack H, Baning F, Rosenheck R; Joining Forces Research Consortium. Joining psychiatric care and faith healing in a prayer camp in Ghana: randomised trial. Br J Psychiatry. 2018 Jan;212(1):34-41. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2017.12.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Fluoxetine	Small molecule	—	Oral
Subject	Olanzapine	Small molecule	—	Oral
Subject	Risperidone	Other / unclassified	—	Oral
Subject	amitryptaline	Unknown	—	Oral

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

Summary

Timeline

Publications

Drugs

Indications