Gender differences in depressive symptom profiles and patterns of psychotropic drug usage in Asian patients with depression: Findings from the Research on Asian Psychotropic Prescription Patterns for Antidepressants study

Park SC 1 , Lee MS 2 , Shinfuku N 3 , Sartorius N 4 , Park YC 5

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Psychiatry, Yong-In Mental Hospital, Yongin, South Korea Institute of Mental Health, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2 Department of Psychiatry, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 3 Department of Social Welfare, School of Human Sciences, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan
  • 4 Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 5 Institute of Mental Health, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, South Korea hypyc@hanyang.ac.kr
Aust N Z J Psychiatry, 2015 Sep;49(9):833-41.
PMID: 25829482 DOI: 10.1177/0004867415579464

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there were gender-specific depressive symptom profiles or gender-specific patterns of psychotropic agent usage in Asian patients with depression.

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