Utilization of antidepressants, anxiolytics, and hypnotics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Transl Psychiatry · 2024 · PMC10995182 · PMID 38575574

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

A study from Northern Ireland showed a decreasing trend in prescriptions from 2012 until 2019 in hypnotics for all age groups and in BZD within the elderly only.

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

The prepandemic period was analyzed in most of these studies with no changes in BZD and/or hypnotic prescriptions during the pandemic, showing different trends of prescriptions across areas: an increasing trend in Poland [ 46 ], a decreasing trend in Canada [ 57 ], and no change in the Scania region in Sweden during the time period before COVID-19 [ 58 ].

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