Fig. 3: Period specific incident prescription of anxiolytics and antidepressants. | Translational Psychiatry

Fig. 3: Period specific incident prescription of anxiolytics and antidepressants.

From: Trends in incident diagnoses and drug prescriptions for anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: an 18-month follow-up study based on the UK Biobank

Fig. 3

Note, IR incidence rate, SIR standardized incidence ratio. * Three preceding years as the pre-pandemic period (i.e., from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2019). † The expectation was calculated by multiplying the number of persons by the average month-specific, sex-specific, and age-specific (1-year strata) incidence rate derived from pre-pandemic period. ‡ The standardized incidence ratio was calculated by comparing the number of observed incident cases with the expectation.

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