Antipsychotic Prescribing Pathways for Schizophrenia in the UAE, 2018-2025

A retrospective cohort study of 5,125 patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders treated at Al Amal Psychiatric Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between January 2018 and December 2025. The dataset, authored by Syed Ali Bokhari and shared on figshare, examines six domains of antipsychotic prescribing, including first-line selection, treatment persistence, and polypharmacy. The cohort represented 120 nationalities and had a mean age of 33.3 years.

Use Cases

• Analyzing treatment persistence and modification rates based on the reported median persistence of 36 days and modification rate of 60.1%.
• Studying ethnic variation in prescribing practices based on the cohort representing 120 nationalities.
• Benchmarking clozapine utilization rates against international standards based on the reported 7.8% rate among eligible patients.
• Modeling trends in long-acting injectable antipsychotic adoption based on the reported 19-fold acceleration in initiation from 2018-2020 to 2024-2025.

Strengths

• Includes 5,125 patient records, described as the largest Gulf-region cohort for this topic to date.
• Covers a 7-year time range from 2018 to 2025, allowing for longitudinal analysis of prescribing trends.
• Examines six specific clinical domains, including first-line selection, persistence, modifications, LAI use, clozapine prescribing, and polypharmacy.
• Reports detailed statistical results, such as a median persistence of 36 days and a clozapine initiation delay of 10.2 months.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying data tables is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is sourced from a single hospital in Dubai, which may limit generalizability to other regions or care settings.

Provenance

Source

Electronic medical records from Al Amal Psychiatric Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Collection Method

Retrospective cohort study employing Kaplan–Meier survival analysis, Cox proportional hazards models, and logistic regression.

Time Range

January 2018 to December 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 06:13:42

Geography

Dubai, United Arab Emirates