Table 4.

Correlation between treatment decision-making in case vignettes and PAP scores

Attitudes in case vignette (1=not at all, 5=extremely)		Correlation with PAP score (rho/p)
[A-1]	How likely are you to increase his regular dose of risperidone?	0.0885
		0.1044
[A-2]	How likely are you to increase his regular dose of aripiprazole?	0.0832
		0.1270
[A-3]	How likely are you to add electroconvulsive therapy to his medication?	-0.0349
		0.5222
[A-4]	How likely are you to add a new antipsychotic drug to his present medication?	0.2822***
		<0.0001
[A-5]	How likely are you to reduce the dose of his present medication and combine a new antipsychotic drug?	0.0778
		0.1535
[A-6]	How likely are you to replace all the present medications with new antipsychotics at a similar dose?	-0.0270
		0.6212
[B-1]	How likely are you to agree with the additional risperidone (4 mg/day)?	0.2141***
		0.0001
[B-2]	How likely are you to agree with the additional chlorpromazine (50 mg/day)?	0.1805***
		0.0009
[B-3]	How likely are you to think that this three-type-combined medication is too much?	-0.2938***
		<0.0001

Significance levels of p<0.001 are indicated by ***. PAP, Psychiatrists’ attitudes toward polypharmacy