Antidepressant Use Prospectively Relates to a Poorer Long-Term Outcome of Depression: Results from a Prospective Community Cohort Study over 30 Years

Psychother Psychosom. 2018;87(3):181-183. doi: 10.1159/000488802. Epub 2018 Apr 20.

Authors

Michael P Hengartner¹, Jules Angst², Wulf Rössler^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Psychology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland.
² Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Institute of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Neuroscience (LIM 27), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 29680831
DOI: 10.1159/000488802

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Antidepressive Agents / pharmacology*
Depression / drug therapy*
Depressive Disorder, Major / drug therapy*
Female
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Middle Aged
Outcome Assessment, Health Care / statistics & numerical data*
Severity of Illness Index
Young Adult

Substances

Antidepressive Agents