Association between psychotropic prescriptions and the total amount of psychotropics ingested during an intentional overdose: A single-center retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To investigate the association between psychotropic prescriptions and the total amount of psychotropics ingested during a subsequent intentional overdose and to examine factors related to the number of psychotropic prescriptions.

Methods

The initial sample comprised 69 patients who were admitted to the emergency department of a general hospital in Japan following an intentional overdose via psychotropic medications. We performed retrospective hierarchical multiple regression analysis with the total amount of psychotropics ingested at the overdose as a dependent variable and factors related to deliberate self-harm or overdose identified in previous studies as independent variables. We compared two models, one that did not (Step 1) and one that did (Step 2) include the num

SUBMITTER: Tanahashi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9216370 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature