Methods: In this retrospective chart-review, 6-month adherence to antidepressants was examined in 367 outpatients with a major depressive disorder (ICD-10) (170 males; mean ± SD age 37.6 ± 13.9 years), who started antidepressant treatment from April 2006 through March 2007. Additionally, we ...
acceptability rate was greater. The relapse rate after 6-month and 1-year timeframes is similar in the subjects who continued the antidepressant medication while those who discontinued the medication showed a 2% increase in relapse rate after 1 year compared with after 6 months. This suggests that...
Method. A retrospective chart review was performed on 2475 patients being seen in a rural private psychiatric practice. The study focused on those patients who had a clinical diagnosis of unipolar depression, and who achieved remission on antidepressant monotherapy. Data collected included patient ...
A chart-based association study of newer antidepressant medication use and weight change in a population in LebanonEl-Khoury, J.Beayno, A.Noufi, P.Bejjani, M.Al Ahad, M. AbedMajari, G.Ahmad, A.European Psychiatry
Mixed-effects models were used to estimate rate of weight change over 12 months in comparison with the reference antidepressant, citalopram. Main Outcome and Measure Clinician-recorded weight at 3-month intervals up to 12 months. Results Compared with citalopram, in models adjusted for ...
serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment as the reference category and shows that, in a direct comparison of fall rates between the antidepressant classes, there were no significant differences overall (P= 0.59). There were significant trends in fall rates by dose in each of the drug classes (Table...
Brandon AR, Freeman MP. When she says “no” to medication: psychotherapy for antepartum depression. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2011;13:459–666. ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar Brinkers M, Petz T, Hoffmeyer D. [General importance of antidepressants in treatment of patients with chronic pain (German)]....
Analysis flow chart, and inclusion/exclusion terms for cohort selection, used in adverse event rate comparison between botulinum toxin and control cohorts. Full size image Figure 2 Study cohorts by indication and injection site. Christos Georghiou/shutterstock.com, decade3d—anatomy online/shutterstock....
Results/discussion: Psychotropic medication did not have an impact on antidepressant efficacy of ECT as measured with the MADRS scores. In addition, the comparison between the antidepressant or antipsychotic medications themselves did not show any significant difference. However, we ...
Side effects and consecutive change of medication are likely to influence the speed of response and have to be further considered as potential confounding variables. (5) A further limitation is the choice of a 5-week time point, which is much shorter than the maximal possible observation time ...