Use of Prescription Medication by Individuals Who Died by Suicide in Northern Ireland
2017; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13811118.2017.1289870
ISSN1543-6136
AutoresTony Benson, Colette Corry, Siobhan O’Neill, Sam Murphy, Brendan Bunting,
Tópico(s)Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
ResumoTo understand medication use prior to suicide in relation to patterns, polypharmacy, and adherence. A total of 1,371 suicide cases were coded and latent class analysis used to identify combinations of medications prescribed prior to death. Two thirds had been prescribed medication with 30.7% prescribed 3 or more. Latent class analysis revealed three classes: Mixed medication use, primarily mental medication use, and baseline/low medication use. There are potentially high rates of medication non-adherence. Not only medication use but also non-adherence rates were high in this sample of individuals who died by suicide. Potential implications and areas for future research are discussed.
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