Antidepressant medication prevents suicide in depression

Autor: G, Isacsson, J, Reutfors, F C, Papadopoulos, U, Ösby, J, Ahlner
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. 122(6)
ISSN: 1600-0447
Popis: Ecological studies have demonstrated a substantial decrease in suicide in parallel with an increasing use of antidepressants. To investigate on the individual level the hypothesis that antidepressant medication was a causal factor.Data on the toxicological detection of antidepressants in 18 922 suicides in Sweden 1992-2003 were linked to registers of psychiatric hospitalization as well as registers with sociodemographic data.The probability for the toxicological detection of an antidepressant was lowest in the non-suicide controls, higher in suicides, and even higher in suicides that had been psychiatric in-patients but excluding those who had been in-patients for the treatment of depression.The finding that in-patient care for depression did not increase the probability of the detection of antidepressants in suicides is difficult to explain other than by the assumption that a substantial number of depressed individuals were saved from suicide by postdischarge treatment with antidepressant medication.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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