Information on antidepressants for psychiatric inpatients: the divide between patient needs and professional practice.

Background: Medicine information is an integral part of patient care and a patient right. In particular, patients with a mental health diagnosis have a need for information on medicines.

Objective: This study aims to describe the current practice on information provision on antidepressants to inpatients in psychiatric hospitals.

Following up patients with depression after hospital discharge: a mixed methods approach.

Background: A medication information intervention was delivered to patients with a major depressive episode prior to psychiatric hospital discharge.

Methods: The objective of this study was to explore how patients evolved after hospital discharge and to identify factors influencing this evolution. Using a quasi-experimental longitudinal design, the quantitative analysis measured clinical (using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the somatic dimension of the Symptom Checklist 90 and recording the number of readmissions) and humanistic (using the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire) outcomes of patients via telephone contacts up to one year following discharge.