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  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Statistical analysis
  • Public health

Background:

  • High psychotropic drug consumption presents a public health challenge.
  • Identifying consumption patterns in the post-marketing phase requires robust statistical methods.
  • Agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) and latent class analysis (LCA) are clustering techniques applicable to pharmacoepidemiology.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare AHC and LCA for analyzing psychotropic drug consumption.
  • Evaluate methods based on cluster number, concordance, interpretability, and temporal stability.
  • Assess the utility of these statistical approaches in pharmacoepidemiological research.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) for data analysis.
  • Employed latent class analysis (LCA) as a comparative statistical method.
  • Analyzed a dataset focusing on bromazepam consumption patterns.

Main Results:

  • Both AHC and LCA demonstrated strong concordance in classifying consumption patterns.
  • AHC proved to be a highly stable method, yielding homogeneous clusters.
  • LCA, an inferential approach, appeared more effective in identifying subjects with extreme or deviant consumption behaviors.

Conclusions:

  • AHC and LCA are valuable statistical tools for pharmacoepidemiological studies.
  • The choice between AHC and LCA may depend on the specific research objective, such as identifying homogeneous groups versus deviant behaviors.
  • Both methods contribute to a better understanding of drug consumption characteristics.