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Table 4 Number (%) of patients with concomitant medication of anxiolytics, hypnotics and analgesics on prescription of an antidepressant (baseline) and after 8 weeks of antidepressant treatment

From: Antidepressant treatment and cultural differences - a survey of the attitudes of physicians and patients in Sweden and Turkey

Concomitant medication

Baseline

Week 8

 

Sweden n (%)

Turkey n (%)

p-value

Sweden n (%)

Turkey n (%)

p-value

Anxiolytics

5 (6.7%)

52 (17.6%)

0.019

2 (3.6%)

22 (7.9%)

0.394

Hypnotics

11 (14.7%)

2 (0.7%)

<0.001

6 (10.7%)

0 (0.0%)

<0.001

Analgesics

10 (13.3%)

15 (5.1%)

0.018

7 (12.5%)

5 (1.8%)

0.001