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Károly Bozsonyi1, David Lester2, Tamás Zonda3
1Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, Hungary.
Background:
It has been claimed that the advent of modern antidepressants has reduced the suicide rate.
Aims:
To examine the correlation between the suicide rate and the prescription of antidepressants.
Method:
A dynamic regression was employed to analyze a 73-month-long, monthly time series between 2010 and 2016 in Hungary. The independent variable was the Defined Daily Dose value for the number of antidepressant (AD) prescriptions filled each month.
Results:
The models failed to show a significant association between the prescription of antidepressants and age- and sex-specific monthly suicide rates.
Conclusions:
The prescription of antidepressants in Hungary has had no impact on suicide rates.
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