PMID: 9542697Jan 1, 1997Paper

Changing patterns of psychotropic medications prescribed by child psychiatrists in the 1990s

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
D J Safer

Abstract

The active (1994) and closed (1988 to 1992) outpatient records of youths seen in four separate community mental health centers (CMHC) in Baltimore County, Maryland were reviewed in mid-1994 to document recent changes in the medication-prescribing practices of local child psychiatrists. Inpatient summaries of previously hospitalized CMHC youths were also reviewed to supplement the outpatient medication assessment with hospital data. This regional survey of medication treatments in child psychiatry revealed that, during the half decade before 1994, there was an increase in overall psychotropic medication treatment, multiple concurrent medication treatments (polypharmacy), and antidepressant treatment with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs). Inpatient youths were consistently prescribed more psychotropic medications and diagnosed more frequently with major depressive disorder than outpatients. Medications typically used to first treat mood disorders became the predominant medication prescribed for both outpatients and inpatients by child psychiatrists in 1994, leading to a proportional decline in prescribed stimulant treatment. The shift from tricyclic antidepressants to SRI antidepressants in the 1990s by child psychiatrists ma...Continue Reading

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