Antidepressant Use in Medicaid-Insured Youth: Trends, Covariates, and Future Research Needs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Detailed research on long-term antidepressant (AD) trends within a single large US Medicaid population of youth has not heretofore been reported.

Methods

Administrative claims data for eight annual timepoints across 28 years (1987-2014) were organized for youth (<20 years old) who were continuously enrolled during each study year in a mid-Atlantic state Medicaid program. Total annual AD prevalence and age-, gender-, race-, eligibility group-, and diagnosis-specific prevalence were formed from bivariate analyses; logistic regression assessed the change in use (2007-2014) adjusted for covariates. AD-polypharmacy data were assessed in 2014.

Results

The major findings are: 1) AD use in state Medicaid enrollees grew 14-fold between 1987 and 2014. Data from 2014

SUBMITTER: Zito JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7082310 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature