Citation

Bozsonyi K, Lester D, Zonda T, Balint L, Veres E. Omega (Westport) 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Sage Publications)

DOI

10.1177/00302228211067031

PMID

35094585

Abstract

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.

Language: en

Keywords

suicide; antidepressants; autoregressive integrated moving average; dynamic regression; Granger causality