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Therapeutic strategies used on treatment of depression. Dria study
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
There are few clinical studies about strategies used in depression in clinical practice.
Describe therapeutic strategies used in psychiatric care in patients with depression who had a suboptimal response to standard antidepressants under real-life conditions.
Non-interventional study that included a prospective cohort of outpatients diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) who needed a change on the treatment. Strategies were group as: switch of antidepressant, combination of antidepressants, augmentation or a combination of previous strategies. Follow-up period was 22-26 weeks.
364 patients were included by 58 psychiatrists, 336 were analyzed (92.3%) and 315 (86.5%) completed the follow-up.
[Strategies selected in each change]
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[Relationship between no. changes and no. strategie]
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Strategies more used were: switch to another antidepressant, combination of antidepressant, augmentation and multiple strategies.
Although a change of treatment was decided, frequently it was selected a strategy used in the past.
This study has been sponsored by AstraZeneca Farmaceutica Spain, SA.
- Type
- P02-34
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 629
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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