EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR GERIATRIC PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）： 精神药理学知识创造了一个迫切需要改善 向医院以外的医生和护理人员传播知识 专业的心理健康领域，他们实际上治疗了大多数 精神障碍患者。本项目将通过以下方式满足这一需求： 为非专业提供者开发和评估教育模块 对患有精神疾病的老年人的照顾。教育材料关于 鉴于越来越多的病人， 65岁以上的老年人和老年人对身边的脆弱性增加 精神药物的影响。该项目的第一阶段将开发 并评估一个基于录像带的医生教育模块， 关于抗精神病药物的神经运动副作用，一组 对于老年患者来说， 比年轻的成年人更敏感。在第二阶段，他们将扩大 重点是开发关于以下方面的教育模块： 老年人抗精神病药物治疗，包括适应症和 抗精神病药物使用的禁忌症，以及涵盖非 神经运动副作用此外，他们还将开发有关 老年人群中非内科医生使用抗精神病药物的情况 照顾者

DESCRIPTION (adapted from applicant's abstract): Recent rapid advances in psychopharmacologic knowledge have created a pressing need to improve dissemination of knowledge to physicians and caregivers outside the specialized mental health field who actually treat the majority of patients with mental disorders. This project will address this need by developing and evaluating educational modules for nonspecialist providers of care to the elderly with mental illness. Educational materials about the elderly are especially needed given the growing numbers of patients over 65 and the increased vulnerability of the elderly to the side effects of psychotropic medications. Phase I of the project will develop and evaluate a videotape-based educational module for physicians concerning neuromotor side effects of antipsychotic medications, a group of often irreversible side effects to which elderly patients have a much higher susceptibility than younger adults. In Phase II, they will expand the focus to develop educational modules about additional aspects of antipsychotic drug treatment in the elderly, including indication and contraindications to antipsychotic use and also materials covering non- neuromotor side effects. In addition, they will develop materials about antipsychotic drug use in geriatric populations for nonphysician caregivers.