Outcomes associated with antidepressant treatment according to the number of prescriptions and treatment changes : 5-year follow-up of a nation-wide cohort study

Copyright © 2022 Ouazana-Vedrines, Lesuffleur, Cuerq, Fagot-Campagna, Rachas, Gastaldi-Ménager, Hoertel, Limosin, Lemogne and Tuppin..

Background: Naturalistic studies regarding clinical outcomes associated with antidepressant treatment duration have yielded conflicting results, possibly because they did not consider the occurrence of treatment changes. This nation-wide population-based study examined the association between the number of filled prescriptions and treatment changes and long-term psychiatric outcomes after antidepressant treatment initiation.

Methods: Based on the French national health insurance database, 842,175 adults who initiated an antidepressant treatment in 2011 were included. Cox proportional-hazard multi-adjusted regression models examined the association between the number of filled prescriptions and the occurrence of treatment changes 12 months after initiation and four outcomes during a 5-year follow-up: psychiatric hospitalizations, suicide attempts, sick leaves for a psychiatric diagnosis, new episodes of antidepressant treatment.

Results: During a mean follow-up of 4.5 years, the incidence rates of the four above-mentioned outcomes were 13.49, 2.47, 4.57, and 92.76 per 1,000 person-years, respectively. The number of filled prescriptions was associated with each outcome (adjusted HRs [95% CI] for one additional prescription ranging from 1.01 [1.00-1.02] to 1.10 [1.09-1.11]), as was the occurrence of at least one treatment change vs. none (adjusted HRs [95% CI] ranging from 1.18 [1.16-1.21] to 1.57 [1.79-1.65]). Furthermore, the adjusted HRs [95% CI] of the number of filled prescriptions were greater in patients with (vs. without) a treatment change for psychiatric hospitalizations (1.12 [1.11-1.14] vs. 1.09 [1.08-1.10], p for interaction = 0.002) and suicide attempts (1.12 [1.09-1.15] vs. 1.06 [1.04-1.08], p for interaction = 0.006).

Limitations: Lack of clinical data about the disorders warranting the prescriptions or their severity.

Conclusion: Considering treatment changes is critical when using administrative claims database to examine the long-term psychiatric outcomes of antidepressant treatments in real-life settings.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in psychiatry - 13(2022) vom: 01., Seite 923916

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ouazana-Vedrines, Charles [VerfasserIn]
Lesuffleur, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Cuerq, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Fagot-Campagna, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Rachas, Antoine [VerfasserIn]
Gastaldi-Ménager, Chrystelle [VerfasserIn]
Hoertel, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Limosin, Frédéric [VerfasserIn]
Lemogne, Cédric [VerfasserIn]
Tuppin, Philippe [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Administrative claims database
Antidepressive agents
Cohort studies
Journal Article
Sick leaves
Suicide

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Date Revised 28.09.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fpsyt.2022.923916

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM346762057