Tài liệu Báo cáo y học: "A three-country comparison of psychotropic medication prevalence in youth"

Increased psychotropic medication prevalence for youth has been reported during the last decade in the UK, Ger- many, Italy, Denmark, and the Netherlands, as well as in the US. Drug subclasses that have increased the most have been the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants and the atypical antipsychotics [1-4]. There are, nonetheless, major cross-national differences in psychotropic prevalence by drug class and subclass, gen- der and age group [5]. The variability in US-European psychotropic medication practice patterns reflects many differences such as diag- nostic systems, practice guidelines, drug regulations,
decentralized private vs. centralized national health service delivery systems, availability and financing of services as well as cultural beliefs [6].