Keywords: 
• mental illness /
• therapeutic drugs /
• cross-sectional survey /
• rational usage of drugs

Abstract: Objective To study the clinical application of psychotropic agents for psychiatric patients in our hospital and provide the basis for promoting rational clinical usage of drugs. Methods A cross-sectional survey method was used to survey the neuroleptics use of psychiatric inpatients in one day. Results The total average of drug kind for patients was 3.51. The average of psychotropic agent's kind was 2.09, and the combination therapy ratio was 74.15%. The top five antipsychotic drugs being used were risperidone, quetipine, aripiprazole, olanzapine and chlorpromazine. The top five antidepressant being used were venlafaxine, duloxetine, paroxetine, mirtazapine and fluvoxamine. The patients mainly used single medicines and new drugs had become the first-line medicines in clinical treatment. The utilization rate of benzodiazepines was 9.52%, utilization rate of mood stabilizer was 19.73% and utilization rate of trihexyphenidyl was 30.61%. Conclusion The usage of medicines in psychiatric department of our hospital was rational on the whole. But there were also some loopholes in other aspects, such as combination used of antidepressant drugs, trihexyphenidyl indications controlling, drug selection accompanied by other disease, which should still need to be strengthened.