Few studies have delineated the real-world, long-term trends of prescription patterns of
antidepressants for patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). This study aims to …

Background Although the symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD) are often
manageable with pharmacotherapy, response to first-line antidepressant treatment is often …

Purpose The number of antidepressants prescribed in the UK has been increasing over the
last 25 years; however, the reasons for this are not clear. This study examined trends in …

Purpose Antidepressant drug use increases worldwide. It is pivotal to closely monitor the
use of antidepressants and to determine in what subpopulations the rise is most substantial …

Summary During 2015–2018, 13.2% of Americans aged 18 and over reported taking
antidepressant medication in the past 30 days. Antidepressant use was higher among …

Context Antidepressants have recently become the most commonly prescribed class of
medications in the United States. Objective To compare sociodemographic and clinical …

Over the past two decades, the use of antidepressant medications has grown to the point
that they are now the third most commonly prescribed class of medications in the United …

Objective: To assess the trend in long-term use of antidepressants by persons aged≥ 18
years, and the correlates of such use, in the United States from 1999 to 2010. Method: We …

Background We aimed to describe patterns of use and characteristics of 10 commonly used
antidepressants for the period 2009–2014 in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Sweden …

Purpose Drug utilization studies have applied different methods to various data types to
describe medication use, which hampers comparisons across populations. The aim of this …