Schizophrenia Patient Decision Aid

Updated: December 2009

This patient decision aid outlines some important patient-oriented issues around antipsychotics and compares their very different side effect profiles.

The patient decision aids on NPCi have been developed to help guide difficult decisions in which patients need to consider benefits versus risks. Decision aids prepare patients for decision making by increasing their knowledge about expected outcomes and personal values.

These documents are based on the best available evidence but are not a substitute for a discussion with a suitably skilled healthcare professional. We hope that their use in such discussions will result in better informed, patient-focussed decision making.

You can either choose to view the decision aid on the screen by clicking the 'flash' version or you can download and print a copy by clicking the 'PDF' version.

Let us know what you think about our PDAs and how you use them

We are always grateful for feedback, indeed without it most of this work would not have been possible. We should be very grateful if you would take about 5 minutes to complete a short anonymous survey on your experiences with these PDAs. Click here to take the survey.

If you are interested in finding out more about how to make the best use out of patient decision aids, the following may be of interest:

• Making use of patient decision aids
• Cochrane decision aid registry
• Using decision aids in practice