T S Sathyanarayana Rao, J Shivanand Manohar, Rajesh Raman, M S Darshan, Abhinav Tandon, K N Karthik, N Saraswathi, Keya Das, G T Harsha, Swetha Patil Kunkeri, Chittaranjan Andrade
BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common mental health disorders that are responsible for considerable societal burden. There are no data on cost-efficacy and medication compliance related to the treatment of these disorders in rural India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All consenting adults ( n = 455) diagnosed with generalized anxiety or (unipolar) depressive disorders in Suttur village, Karnataka, were treated with open-label fluoxetine (20-60 mg/day), sertraline (50-150 mg/day), escitalopram (10-20 mg/day), desvenlafaxine (50-150 mg/day), duloxetine (30-90 mg/day), amitriptyline (75-150 mg/day), or clomipramine (75-150 mg/day) in a structured, monotherapy dosing plan...
April 2017: Indian Journal of Psychiatry