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Antidepressant use in Sweden: an intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)
Lund University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7341-7080
Lund University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3186-9054
Lund University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6749-7037
Lund University, Sweden.
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2021 (English)In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, ISSN 1403-4948, E-ISSN 1651-1905, Vol. 50, no 3, p. 395-403Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Introduction: Antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in Sweden. However, we lack detailed knowledge on the socioeconomic and demographic distribution of antidepressant use in the population. To fill this gap, we performed an intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy.

Methods: Analysing all Swedish residents older than 10 years (n=8,190,990), we measured the absolute risk of antidepressant use across 144 intersectional strata defined by combinations of age, gender, income, country of birth and psychiatric diagnosis. We calculated the strata-specific absolute risk of antidepressant use in a series of multilevel logistic regression models. By means of the variance partitioning coefficient and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, we quantified the discriminatory accuracy of the intersectional contexts (i.e. strata) for discerning those who use antidepressants from those who do not.

Results: The absolute risk of antidepressant use ranged between 0.93% and 24.78% among those without a psychiatric diagnosis, and between 21.41% and 77.56% among those with a psychiatric diagnosis. Both the variance partitioning coefficient of 41.88% and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.81 were considerable.

Conclusions: Besides overt psychiatric diagnoses, our study shows that antidepressant use is mainly conditioned by age, which might express the embodiment of socioeconomic conditions across the individual life course. Our analysis provides a detailed and highly discriminatory mapping of the heterogeneous distribution of antidepressant use in the Swedish population, which may be useful in public health management.

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Sage Publications, 2021. Vol. 50, no 3, p. 395-403
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Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
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Health and Caring Sciences, Caring Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-117366DOI: 10.1177/1403494821993723ISI: 000629730500001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85101747757OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-117366DiVA, id: diva2:1709632
Available from: 2022-11-09 Created: 2022-11-09 Last updated: 2022-11-30Bibliographically approved

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