Patients' attitudes toward side effects of antidepressants: An Internet survey

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-109

  Kikuchi, Toshiaki ^a   Uchida, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Suzuki, Takefumi ^a,b,c   Watanabe, Koichiro ^a   Kashima, Haruo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Gender; Internet survey; Sexual dysfunction; Side effect

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; AMOXAPINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CLOMIPRAMINE; DOSULEPIN; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MAPROTILINE; MIANSERIN; MILNACIPRAN; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; SULPIRIDE; TECIPTILINE; TRAZODONE; TRIMIPRAMINE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; COMMON COLD; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENDER; HEADACHE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SWEATING; TREMOR; VERTIGO; WEIGHT GAIN; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ATTITUDE; DEPRESSION; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNET; JAPAN; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79952247721     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: 14338491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-010-0124-z     Document Type: Review

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