Julia Eder, Catherine Glocker, Barbara Barton, Elif Sarisik, David Popovic, Jana Lämmermann, Alexandra Knaf, Anja Beqiri-Zagler, Katharina Engl, Leonie Rihs, Lisa Pfeiffer, Andrea Schmitt, Peter Falkai, Maria S Simon, Richard Musil
BACKGROUND: Weight gain is a common side effect in psychopharmacology; however, targeted therapeutic interventions and prevention strategies are currently absent in day-to-day clinical practice. To promote the development of such strategies, the identification of factors indicative of patients at risk is essential. METHODS: In this study, we developed a transdiagnostic model using and comparing decision tree classifiers, logistic regression, XGboost, and a support vector machine to predict weight gain of ≥5% of body weight during the first 4 weeks of treatment with psychotropic drugs associated with weight gain in 103 psychiatric inpatients...
April 1, 2024: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica