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Using association rules to study patterns of medicine use in Thai adult depressed patients
Sukontavaree, Chumpoonuch1, Lertnattee, Verayuth2.
Depression is a mental disorder which is characterized by feeling of guilt, suicidal
tendencies and disturbed bodily functions. In 2002, depression is ranked as the
fourth of disease burden in worldwide and it will be changed to the second rank in
2030. Furthermore, more than 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression.
Clinician staffs must take care of patients closely because these patients have
medication adherence problem. To alleviate this problem, an adherence training
program is introduced. Due to the limitation of budget and clinical stuffs, it is hard
to educate all depressed patients. To deal with this problem, a method for finding
rules of medicine use is proposed in three steps, The first step is finding the
commonly used medicines with their adherences. In the second step, two groups of
patients are classified, i.e., adherence and non-adherence groups for each
commonly used medicines. For the last step, association rules are applied on each
group of patients. From results, fluoxetine is a popular medicine for treatment
depression. The numbers of medicines for a non-adherent group are more than
those of an adherent group. Several patterns of drug interactions are found. These
patterns should be reported to clinical staffs. In conclusion, results from the
proposed method are applied for selecting a set of patients and drugs, which are
filled in the adherence training program.
Affiliation:
- Silpakorn University, Thailand
- Silpakorn University, Thailand
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