Global prevalence of antidepressant drug utilization in the community: protocol for a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Antidepressant drugs are the most frequently prescribed medication for mental disorders. They are also used off-label and for non-psychiatric indications. Prescriptions of antidepressants have increased in the last decades, but no systematic review exists on the extent of their use in the community.

Methods and analysis

We will conduct a systematic review to estimate the prevalence of antidepressant use in the community. We will search for studies published from 1 January 2010 in the Embase and MEDLINE databases using a combination of controlled vocabulary and keywords adjusted for each database without any language restriction. The main inclusion criterion is the presence of prevalence data of antidepressant utilization. Thus, we will include all studies with a

SUBMITTER: Lunghi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9157341 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature