Observational Study of Prescribing Pattern of Psychotropic Drugs Used in Department of Psychiatry at Tertiary Level Hospital
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 12
Abstract
Mental health disorder is one of the major health problems, which requires early & effective treatment. WHO global burden of disease 2001 estimates four main psychiatric causes leading to disability, which is Depression, Alcohol abuse, Schizophrenia & Bipolar disorder. Although current psychotropic medicines have remarkable effect on mental illnesses, their utilization in clinical practice needs to be done regularly hence, current study aims to observe the utilization and prescribing pattern of various drugs used in department of psychiatry, according to various WHO drug use indicators. It is a prescription based prospective, observational study conducted on 1200 prescriptions of patients attending department of psychiatry for 18 months. Total of 3632 drugs were prescribed in 1200 prescriptions analyzed, where 48.4% (581) were males and 51.6% (619) were females, majority of the patients 56.25% (675) belonged to age group of 21-40yr, 85.67% (1028) individuals were married. Out of total drugs prescribed 2971 (81.80%) were psychotropic drugs. Average no. of total drugs & psychotropic drugs prescribed per encounter was 3.03 & 2.48 respectively. 1680 (46.26%) drugs were prescribed from the WHO EDL formulary (2016), all the drugs were prescribed by brand names, percentage of prescriptions with injectable drugs accounted for 4.75%. Polytherapy (>5drugs) was observed only in few prescriptions 26 (2.17%). This study advocated an overall rational utilization of psychotropic drugs with fewer deviations due to the prescription practices of healthcare providers, which needs an improvement, to ensure rational use of drugs.
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Priyanka Yadav, Anshu Gupta, Manish Bathla, Rani Walia
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