Antidepressant prescriptions and adherence in primary care in India: Insights from a cluster randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization recommends that treatment of depression in low and middle-income countries with a scarcity of psychiatrists could be done in primary care and should include prescription of antidepressant medications for moderate and severe depression. Little is known, however, about the actual practices of antidepressant prescription by primary care physicians in low and middle-income countries, nor about adherence by people receiving such prescriptions. In a large study of primary care clinics in Goa, India, we examined the relationship of actual to recommended prescribing practices for depression, among all patients who screened positive for common mental disorder. We also examined other patient and clinic characteristics associated with antidepressant pr

SUBMITTER: Pillai A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7978355 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature