The Social Reality of Depression: DTC Advertising of Antidepressants and Perceptions of the Prevalence and Lifetime Risk of Depression

Park, Jin‐Seong; Grow, Jean M.

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“…Second, depression remains a largely under-diagnosed disease with much potential for consumer education (National Institute of Mental Health, 2010). Third, symptoms of depression, such as loneliness, feelings of social isolation, and worthlessness, suggest that antidepressant advertising is targeted toward a potentially vulnerable group of consumers (Park & Grow, 2008). Fourth, examining fair balance in the antidepressant drug category is especially important as those suffering from psychiatric and neurological illnesses may have impaired decisional capacity (Hollon, 2004).…”

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Fair Balance in Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Print and Television Advertising, 1995–2007

Avery

Eisenberg

Simon

2012

Journal of Health Communication

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The authors evaluated fair balance in the presentation of risks and benefits in a large sample of direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription antidepressant medications appearing in magazines (1995-2006) and television (1999-2007) to assess how well they meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines. Using content analysis to capture relevant dimensions of the ads, results indicated that (a) considerably less attention is given to risks relative to benefits and (b) implicit ad content favors communication of drug benefits over risks, but that fair balance in direct-to-consumer ads has improved over time. The authors discuss policy implications and explore future research directions.

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“…We studied DTCA in magazines and television-two media that involve fundamentally different cognitive processing of information (Lang, 2000;Park & Grow, 2008). Print and television offer consumers different amounts of time to process and comprehend information and they deliver information through different visual=auditory stimuli.…”

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Fair Balance in Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Print and Television Advertising, 1995–2007

Avery

Eisenberg

Simon

2012

Journal of Health Communication

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“…Medications available for the treatment of depression such as tricyclic antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and specific serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors [12]. However, the side profile effect profiles of above mentioned drugs regarding libido, sleep, body weight, and cardiovascular system because the treatment of depression is still not at the desired level [13,14,15]. The search for new alternatives to manage depression is turning scientists into natural resources especially phytochemicals.…”

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Assessment of Antidepressant Effect of the Aerial Parts of Micromeria myrtifolia Boiss. & Hohen on Mice

2019

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The currently available antidepressant agents necessitate the development of newer alternatives because of their serious adverse effects and costs. Traditional medicinal knowledge is likely the key that opens the door to discover new medicines. In Turkish folk medicine, the infusion prepared from aerial parts of Micromeria myrtifolia Boiss. & Hohen is used as pleasure and medicinal tea for its relaxing action. The present research was conceived to confirm the antidepressant’s potential of this traditional medicinal plant. In this process, first of all, the collected and shade-dried aerial parts of M. myrtifolia were powdered and then, extracted using solvents with different polarity as follows; n-hexane, ethyl acetate (EtOAc), and methanol (MeOH). The antidepressant activity of the extracts was evaluated by using several in vivo and in vitro experimental models of depression. When the data obtained from the control and experimental groups were compared, it was determined that the MeOH extract was the most active. The active components of this extract were isolated and identified utilizing various chromatographic separation techniques. The MeOH extract was applied to reversed phase (RP-18) column chromatography to obtain five main fractions and they were tested on antidepressant activity models. The isolated compounds from the obtained fractions were elucidated as rosmarinic acid (1), myricetin (2), apigenin (3), and naringenin (4) which were assumed to be responsible for the antidepressant activity of the aerial parts. According to the results, rosmarinic acid, myricetin, apigenin, and naringenin showed statistically significant activity on forced swimming test and tetrabenazine-induced ptosis models, whereas only rosmarinic acid showed statistically significant activity on the tail suspension test. Apigenin displayed the highest inhibitory activity on MAO A and B enzymes. Studies in the future should be performed to investigate the antidepressant activity mechanism of these natural compounds. The current research could be an important step in the development of the new agents that can be used in the treatment of depression.

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“…People who subscribe to this explanation may feel that pharmacological treatment is necessary [38–39], discouraging consideration of evidence-based psychotherapies [19, 35]. Antidepressant advertisements can affect the public's beliefs about depression [40–41], but no study has examined how awareness of these advertisements is related to acceptance of the chemical imbalance model.…”

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Do antidepressant advertisements educate consumers and promote communication between patients with depression and their physicians?

Bell

Taylor

Kravitz

2010

Patient Education and Counseling

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Objective-To examine how online depression support group members respond to direct-toconsumer (DTC) antidepressant advertising.Methods-Survey of 148 depression forum members, administered via an online questionnaire.Results-Chronicity was high, as 79.1% had received a diagnosis of depression 3 or more years earlier. Respondents reported seeing advertisements for an average of 4.3 of 7 brands investigated. A majority rated the information quality of these advertisements as "poor" or "fair." Attitudes toward antidepressant advertisements were neutral (mean: 2.96 on a 5-point scale). More than half (52.4%) visited official websites provided in these advertisements, 39.9% had talked with a doctor after seeing an advertisement, 20.3% made an advertisement-induced prescription request, and 25.7% said these advertisements reminded them to take their antidepressants. Amount of attention given to these advertisements correlated positively with belief in the brain chemical imbalance causal model, but belief in this model did not predict prescription requests. Conclusion-Awareness of DTC antidepressant advertisements is high among individuals with depression, but so is skepticism.Practice Implications-Among members of an on-line support group, these advertisements encourage patient-doctor dialogue, prescription requests, and adherence, but might also reduce the acceptability of psychotherapy and encourage doctor switching in a small number of patients.

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The Social Reality of Depression: DTC Advertising of Antidepressants and Perceptions of the Prevalence and Lifetime Risk of Depression

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Cited by 26 publications

References 53 publications

Fair Balance in Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Print and Television Advertising, 1995–2007

Fair Balance in Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Print and Television Advertising, 1995–2007

Assessment of Antidepressant Effect of the Aerial Parts of Micromeria myrtifolia Boiss. & Hohen on Mice

Do antidepressant advertisements educate consumers and promote communication between patients with depression and their physicians?

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