Use of Prescription Medication by Individuals Who Died by Suicide in Northern Ireland.
To 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.
Tony
T
Benson
Colette
C
Corry
Siobhan
0000-0002-8786-2118
S
O'Neill
Sam
S
Murphy
Brendan
B
Bunting
D000368:Aged; D000078331:Correlation of Data; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055118:Medication Adherence / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009660:Northern Ireland / Q000453:epidemiology; D019338:Polypharmacy; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016903:Drug Monitoring
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs
adherence; medication; polypharmacy; psychotropics; suicide