Assessments
DISEASE, SYNDROME
Participants were evaluated and followed at four time points after titration (baseline, week 2, week 4, and week 8), and all assessments were performed by psychiatrists trained by a positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) institute-certified professor of psychiatry. All the assessors involved in this study received consistency training before the research began. At baseline, sociodemographic information was collected, and disease severity was evaluated using PANSS. Antipsychotics were initially administered at a low dose, gradually adding to the therapeutic dose in 1 week according to the study protocol, and remained the same after titration. Drug dose at 8 weeks was recorded.