RE: Noteworthy News
May 8, 2022 at 10:35 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2022 at 10:37 am by brewer.)
Well, this is kind of depressing:
Antidepressant use is not associated with significant improvement in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with depression, new research suggests.
Researchers who conducted the study admit this finding was unexpected, and outside experts say no firm conclusions can be drawn from the research.
"Of course we were surprised by the results," first author Omar Almohammed, PharmD, PhD, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, told Medscape Medical News.
"We were expecting to see some positive impact with the use of antidepressant medications on the HRQoL measures when we compared these patients to patients that did not use antidepressant medications," Almohammed said.
The study was published online April 20 in PLOS ONE.
Note that this study has not been adequately peer reviewed.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...928#sec016
Antidepressant use is not associated with significant improvement in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with depression, new research suggests.
Researchers who conducted the study admit this finding was unexpected, and outside experts say no firm conclusions can be drawn from the research.
"Of course we were surprised by the results," first author Omar Almohammed, PharmD, PhD, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, told Medscape Medical News.
"We were expecting to see some positive impact with the use of antidepressant medications on the HRQoL measures when we compared these patients to patients that did not use antidepressant medications," Almohammed said.
The study was published online April 20 in PLOS ONE.
Note that this study has not been adequately peer reviewed.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...928#sec016
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
