Gender differences in depressive symptom profiles and patterns of psychotropic drug usage in Asian patients with depression: Findings from the Research on Asian Psychotropic Prescription Patterns for Antidepressants study

Park SC 1 , Lee MS 2 , Shinfuku N 3 , Sartorius N 4 , Park YC 5

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Psychiatry, Yong-In Mental Hospital, Yongin, South Korea Institute of Mental Health, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2 Department of Psychiatry, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 3 Department of Social Welfare, School of Human Sciences, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan
  • 4 Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 5 Institute of Mental Health, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, South Korea [email protected]
Aust N Z J Psychiatry, 2015 Sep;49(9):833-41.
PMID: 25829482 DOI: 10.1177/0004867415579464

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there were gender-specific depressive symptom profiles or gender-specific patterns of psychotropic agent usage in Asian patients with depression.

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