Conditions: Schizophrenic Disorders
Keywords: Schizophrenia Schizoaffective psychosis Schizophreniformic psychosis Pilot study Quetiapine Prolong Risperidone
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 29
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This pilot trial in Finland is designed to evaluate in a randomized fashion change of agitation in acute schizophrenic patients (Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective psychosis or Schizophreniformic psychosis)Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM - IV) with the first visits on days 1, 2, 4 or 5 and 7 ± 1.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Oral arm 2: Oral

Interventions: intervention 1: Quetiapine intervention 2: Risperidone
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Oral administration intervention 2: Oral administration

Protocol document: