Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antidepressant consumption in the Central region of Portugal: interrupted time series.

Despite the initial reduction, an increasing trend was observed in the prescription of these drugs in the first year of the pandemic, contradicting the decreasing trend observed until 2020.

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This study also revealed an immediate reduction in antidepressant prescription in adolescents and elderly women, as well as a decreasing trend in men in the first year of the pandemic, contrary to the pre-existing growing trend.

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