Antipsychotic drug utilization at outpatient clinic of Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang / Noor Aqillah Majid

Pharmacological treatment of psychiatric patient is important and need to be studied continously as it significance for therapeutic success in Schizophrenia patients. Drug utilization study provides a deep insight on how Antipsychotic can be used in medical practices in order to ensure that patients been given the best therapeutic effects. To advance understanding in usage of Antipsychotic agents in clinical setting, this study carried out. Generally, antipsychotic drugs have two general classes, traditional antipsychotics or typical antipsychotics and atypical antipsychotics or newer generation of antipsychotics. Both classes of antipsychotics exert effect on different receptors. For typical antipsychotics, it acts on dopamine neurotransmitter system and known as neuroleptic. Atypical antipsychotics provide psychotic symptom relief without movement problems as it is designed in laboratory to provide that effect.