Approval of psychotherapy and medication for the treatment of mental disorders over the lifespan. An age period cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Previous cross-sectional studies revealed inconsistent results regarding mental health treatment preferences among the general population. In particular, it is unclear to what extent specific age groups approve psychotherapy or psychotropic medication for the treatment of mental disorders. We explore whether treatment recommendations of either psychotherapy or psychiatric medication change over the lifespan which includes age-related effects due to increasing age of a person, cohort effects that reflect specific opinions during the time a person was born and period effects that reflect societal changes.

Methods

Using data from three identical population surveys in Germany from 1990, 2001 and 2011 (combined n = 9046), we performed age-period-cohort analyses to determine

SUBMITTER: Van der Auwera S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6998652 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature