Preventive effect of aripiprazole once-monthly on relapse into mood episodes in bipolar disorder: A multicenter, one-year, retrospective, mirror image study
- Abstract
- Background: We conducted a one-year, retrospective, mirror-image study to investigate the clinical effectiveness and safety of aripiprazole once monthly (AOM) in patients with bipolar disorder (BD). We compared pre-treatment conditions with outcomes after 12 months of AOM treatment.
Methods: Seventy-five bipolar patients were recruited from 12 hospitals in Korea. We included 75 patients with BD who had received at least three AOM treatments from September 2019 to September 2022 and had accessible electronic medical record (EMRs) for the year before and after the baseline visit.
Results: The overall number of mood episodes significantly decreased from a mean of 1.5 ± 1.2 episodes pre-AOM to 0.5 ± 1.2 episodes post-AOM. Manic episodes significantly decreased from 0.8 ± 0.8 episodes pre-AOM to 0.2 ± 0.5 episodes post-AOM, and depressive episodes significantly decreased from 0.5 ± 0.8 episodes pre-AOM to 0.2 ± 0.6 episodes post-AOM (p = 0.017). Moreover, the number of psychiatric medications and pills and the proportion of patients treated with complex polypharmacy were significantly decreased post-AOM.
Limitations: The small sample size was insufficient to fully represent the entire population of individuals with BD, and potential selection bias was introduced due to only including subjects who received AOM three or more times.
Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that AOM can reduce mood episode relapse and may be clinically beneficial in the treatment of BD patients, potentially reducing issues associated with polypharmacy in some individuals.
- All Author(s)
- Young Sup Woo
; Jong-Hyun Jeong
; Hangoeunbi Kang
; Kwanghun Lee
; Se-Hoon Shim
; Young-Joon Kwon
; Sang-Yeol Lee
; Seung-Ho Jang
; Young-Min Park
; Duk-In Jon
; Myung Hun Jung
; Young-Eun Jung
; Moon-Doo Kim
; Inki Sohn
; Sung-Yong Park
; Min-Kyu Song
; Eun-Sung Lim
; Bo-Hyun Yoon
; Won-Myong Bahk
- Issued Date
- 2024
- Type
- Article
- Keyword
- Aripiprazole once monthly; Bipolar disorder; Maintenance treatment; Relapse prevention
- Publisher
- Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press
- ISSN
- 0165-0327
; 1573-2517
- Citation Title
- Journal of affective disorders
- Citation Volume
- 351
- Citation Start Page
- 381
- Citation End Page
- 386
- Language(ISO)
- eng
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jad.2024.01.257
- URI
- http://schca-ir.schmc.ac.kr/handle/2022.oak/3478
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