Seasonal variation in antidepressant prescriptions, environmental light and web queries for seasonal affective disorder
Seasonal variation in antidepressant prescriptions, environmental light and web queries for seasonal affective disorder
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抗抑郁药处方、环境光和季节性情感障碍网络查询的季节性变化
DOI：
10.1192/bjp.2019.40
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
10.5
通讯作者：
N. Cristianini
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作者：
Thomas Lansdall;S. Lightman;N. Cristianini
一个人的心理健康状况取决于许多因素。确定人口中任何特定因素的重要性需要获得无偏数据。我们使用公开的数据集来调查，在人口水平上，心理健康的替代品如何与光照协变。我们发现抗抑郁药处方的季节性模式很强，与日照长度的相关性比与太阳能水平的相关性更强。因此，可以通过网络查询日志等代理指标来确定人群中的抑郁水平。此外，这些抑郁症的代理人与白天的长度而不是太阳能相关。利益声明无。
Summary The state of an individual's mental health depends on many factors. Determination of the importance of any particular factor within a population needs access to unbiased data. We used publicly available data-sets to investigate, at a population level, how surrogates of mental health covary with light exposure. We found strong seasonal patterns of antidepressant prescriptions, which show stronger correlations with day length than levels of solar energy. Levels of depression in a population can therefore be determined by proxy indicators such as web query logs. Furthermore, these proxies for depression correlate with day length rather than solar energy. Declaration of interest None.