The PsyTAR dataset: From patients generated narratives to a corpus of adverse drug events and effectiveness of psychiatric medications.

ABSTRACT: The "Psychiatric Treatment Adverse Reactions" (PsyTAR) dataset contains patients' expression of effectiveness and adverse drug events associated with psychiatric medications. The PsyTAR was generated in four phases. In the first phase, a sample of 891 drugs reviews posted by patients on an online healthcare forum, "askapatient.com", was collected for four psychiatric drugs: Zoloft, Lexapro, Cymbalta, and Effexor XR. For each drug review, patient demographic information, duration of treatment, and satisfaction with the drugs were reported. In the second phase, sentence classification, drug reviews were split to 6009 sentences, and each sentence was labeled for the presence of Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR), Withdrawal Symptoms (WDs), Sign/Symptoms/Illness (SSIs), Drug Indications (DIs), Drug E

SUBMITTER: Zolnoori M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6495095 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature