Use of antipsychotics in the treatment of major depressive disorder in an outpatient mental health center

Results Antipsychotics are used in 27% of the patients, with a predominancy in the female gender (77.8%), a global average age of 57.9 ± 12.6 years. There is a predominancy of absence of psychiatric background (55.6%) and the absence of previous hospitalisations (66.7%). In 96.3% of the sample there was no toxic abuse. It is observed the following distribution in the use of antipsychotics: quetiapine and olanzapine (29.6% each one), risperidone...