释放 (REdressing长期抗抑郁药uSE):为3臂实用集群的协议随机对照试验有效性-实施混合型-1在一般实践中
Katharine A Wallis1, Maria Donald2, Mark Horowitz3
1General Practice Clinical Unit, Medical School, The University of Queensland, Herston, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia. k.wallis@uq.edu.au.
Trials
|September 28, 2023
概括
两个干预措施,RELEASE和RELEASE+,帮助患者安全地停止长期使用抗抑郁药. 这些策略旨在减少戒断症状并改善患者的治疗结果,可能减少对这些药物的依赖.
科学领域:
- 临床医学 临床医学
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 药理学 药理学是指药理学的学科.
背景情况:
- 长期使用抗抑郁药在全球范围内正在增加,尽管对大多数人来说不推.
- 抗抑郁药物戒断症状经常被误认为是复发,导致长期使用药物.
- 长时间使用抗抑郁药与体重增加,性功能障碍和骨折风险增加等不良影响有关.
研究的目的:
- 确定两种多策略干预措施 (RELEASE和RELEASE+) 在支持长期抗抑郁药物安全戒断方面的有效性.
- 估计这些干预措施的成本效益.
- 评估这些干预措施在初级保健中的实施策略.
主要方法:
- 一个三臂实用集群随机对照试验 (RCT) 具有有效性-实施混合设计.
- 这项研究涉及来自澳大利亚昆士兰州东南部28家全科医院的653名成年患者,这些患者被随机分配到通常的护理,RELEASE或RELEASE+.
- 干预措施包括患者资源,全科医生教育,为患者提供额外的数字支持,并为全科医生提供处方支持. 主要结局是12个月后自我报告的抗抑郁药使用情况.
主要成果:
- 该研究将在12个月后评估抗抑郁药的使用,停止定义为至少2周维持0毫克.
- 二次结果包括与健康有关的生活质量,副作用,幸福感,戒断症状,情绪麻木,对抗抑郁药物的信念,抑郁和焦虑症状.
- 通过利用医疗服务来评估成本效益,其次要结果是在12个月后减少75%的剂量.
结论:
- 预计RELEASE研究将产生有关抗抑郁药戒断干预措施有效性和成本效益的国际知识.
- 它将提供有关实施策略的见解,以支持初级保健中安全停用抗抑郁药的实施策略.
- 这些发现旨在改善与长期使用抗抑郁药有关的初级医疗保健和患者结局.
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