Background: Monitoring psychotropic medicine consumption trends can provide information
on the extent of pharmacological interventions for mental disorders and availability of …

Purpose: Psychotropic medications are commonly used for treating mental disorders;
however, there is currently no study on how commonly they are used in China. This study …

The objective of this study was to investigate the current status and trends in antidepressant
use and expenditure in China from 2013 to 2018. The study had a retrospective design …

Summary Background The WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2030
encourages routine collection and reporting of a set of essential mental health indicators …

Background: Mental disorders can have a significant impact on patients' life, including
economic, social and individual consequences, and psychotropic medication is essential to …

Background The prescription of psychotropic medication is rising in Europe along the last
decade. Exploring consumption patterns in pre-pandemic times in Portugal, as well as …

Background Psychotropic medications are useful to treat psychiatric disorders which are
frequently underdiagnosed and undertreated in cancer patients. Evidence on utilisation of …

Purpose This longitudinal study aimed to examine the trends in antipsychotics,
antidepressants, anxiolytics, and hypnotics/sedatives consumption in Croatia over a 10-year …

Objective To describe the trends in use of antidepressants (ADs), atypical antipsychotics
(AAPs), and benzodiazepines (BZDs) among high-, middle-, and low-income countries …

Background The off-label use of antipsychotic medications is common in many countries,
and the extent of such use in psychiatric inpatients in China has not been sufficiently …