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Table 1 Association between indicators of mental illness and antidepressant prescription group

From: Use of sequence analysis for classifying individual antidepressant trajectories to monitor population mental health

 

Antidepressant Prescription Group

Variable

Reference

No prescriptions

OR (95% CI)

Occasional

OR (95% CI)

Decreasing

OR (95% CI)

Increasing

OR (95% CI)

Mostly

OR (95% CI)

Self-reported mental illness in 2011

No self-reported mental illness in 2011

0.09 (0.02, 0.15)

0.84 (0.76, 0.92)

3.83 (3.74, 3.93)

1.84 (1.75, 1.93)

12.97 (12.92, 13.03)

Hospital Admission for mental health care from 2001 to 2008

No Hospital Psychiatric Admission 2001–2008

0.20 (0.03, 0.36)

0.72 (0.48, 0.96)

1.79 (1.52, 1.41)

1.13 (0.86, 1.41)

6.04 (5.89, 6.20)

Anxiolytic Prescription

No anxiolytics prescription (2009–2014)

0.13 (0.08, 0.19)

1.91 (1.85, 1.97)

2.58 (2.48, 2.67)

3.28 (3.20, 3.35)

4.91 (4.85, 4.96)

Antipsychotics Prescription

No antipsychotic prescription (2009–2014)

0.15 (0.07, 0.23)

1.21 (1.11, 1.31)

2.12 (1.98, 2.26)

2.17 (2.05, 2.29)

6.16 (6.08, 6.24)

  1. Adjusted for age, sex, Carstairs deprivation, employment status, ethnicity, social grade, living alone, and marital status; source: SLS