作者
Mauro Giovanni Carta, Eugenio Aguglia, Alberto Bocchetta, Matteo Balestrieri, Filippo Caraci, Massimo Casacchia, Liliana Dell’Osso, Guido Di Sciascio, Filippo Drago, Carlo Faravelli, Maria Efisia Lecca, Maria Francesca Moro, Pier Luigi Morosini, Marcello Nardini, Gabriella Palumbo, Maria Carolina Hardoy
发表日期
2010
期刊
Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health: CP & EMH
卷号
6
页码范围
94
出版商
Bentham Science Publishers
简介
Background:
The increased use of antidepressant drugs (ADs) improved the response to the needs of care although some community surveys have shown that subjects without lifetime psychiatric diagnosis (anxiety/depression) used ADs.
Objectives:
To evaluate the appropriateness and amount of prescription of psychotropic drugs in people with lifetime diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) by means of community survey with a semi-structured interview as a diagnostic instrument, administered by clinicians.
Methods:
Study design: community survey.
Study population: samples randomly drawn, after stratification from the adult population of municipal records. Sample size: 4.999 people were drawn in 7 centres of 6 Italian regions.
Tools:
questionnaire on psychotropic drug consumption, prescription, health services utilization; Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV modified (ANTAS); Training: interviewers were …
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