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Current practice regarding antidepressant use dictates collaborative decision making, but it is not known what influences patients’ decisions. A useful model postulates that patients’ perceptions of positive and negative outcomes, self-efficacy, depressive symptoms, and personal experience all contribute to the decision to start or stop medication. To test this model, researchers used advertisements to recruit volunteers who were given questionnaires and asked 9 months later about antidepressant use. The researchers sought possible predictors of stopping antidepressants among 166 current users of these drugs and of restarting medication among 73 former users.
Among current users, the intent to stop antidepressants soon was a significant pred…