| Title |
Lithium for maintenance treatment of mood disorders
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2001
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| DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd003013 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sally SA Burgess, John Geddes, Keith KE Hawton, Matthew J Taylor, Ellen Townsend, K Jamison, Guy Goodwin |
| Abstract |
Mood disorders are common, disabling and tend to be recurrent. They carry a high risk of suicide. Maintenance treatment, aimed at the prevention of relapse, is therefore of vital importance. Lithium has been used for some years as the mainstay of maintenance treatment in bipolar affective disorder, and to a lesser extent in unipolar disorder. However, the efficacy and effectiveness of prophylactic lithium therapy has been disputed. Low suicide rates in lithium-treated patients have led to claims that lithium has a specific anti-suicidal effect. If so, this is of considerable importance as treatments for mental disorders in general have not been shown convincingly to be effective in suicide prevention. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6 | 35% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 53% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 35% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 329 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 43 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 42 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 41 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 29 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 6% |
| Other | 72 | 22% |
| Unknown | 87 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 84 | 25% |
| Psychology | 48 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 21 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 16 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 2% |
| Other | 56 | 17% |
| Unknown | 100 | 30% |
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