Aim: The aims of the study were to compare the effects on depressive symptoms and insomnia between agomelatine and SSRIs/SNRIs in adult patients with major depression disorder. Method: Materials were collected from the database Pubmed and selected through the aims of the study and certain selection criterias. It was required that the studies fulfilled at least one of the study´s aims to be eligible for inclusion. Eight randomised clinical trials were included in the study. The results from the studies were compared according to statistical and clinical significance. Results: Depressive symtoms were reduced both with agomelatin and SSRIs/SNRIs. Generally the rates of respone and remission were similar of agomelatine and SSRIs/SNRIs. There were advantages for agomelatine in the individual studies concerning rates of respone and remission. Six of the included studies investigated the effect on insomnia. In a majority of these studies agomelatine caused a statistically significant improvement compared to SSRIs/SNRIs. Clinically, both agomelatine och SSRIs/SNRIs improved most of the variables related to insomnia that were examinated according to patient-reported outcome results. Conclusion: Statistically both SSRIs/SNRIs and agomelatine achieved similiar effects on depressive symptoms. In the majority of the included studies that examinated effect on insomnia agomelatine showed a statistically significant improvement compared to SSRIs/SNRIs. Clinically, agomelatine is viewed as a viable option for adult patients with major depressive disorder with unsuccessful response or remission from SSRIs/SNRIs. A similiar clinical relevance were shown for agomelatine and SSRIs/SNRIs concerning improvement of insomnia according to patient-reported outcome results.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-76578 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Enbom, Nathalie |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kemi och biomedicin (KOB) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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