Pharmacokinetically and clinician-determined adherence to an antidepressant regimen and clinical outcome in the TORDIA Trial

Hiwot Woldu; Giovanna Porta; Tina Goldstein; Dara Sakolsky; James Perel; Graham Emslie; Taryn Mayes; Greg Clarke; Neal D. Ryan; Boris Birmaher; Karen Dineen Wagner; Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow; Martin B. Keller; David Brent

doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2011.01.018

Pharmacokinetically and clinician-determined adherence to an antidepressant regimen and clinical outcome in the TORDIA Trial

Hiwot Woldu, Giovanna Porta, Tina Goldstein, Dara Sakolsky, James Perel, Graham Emslie, Taryn Mayes, Greg Clarke, Neal D. Ryan, Boris Birmaher, Karen Dineen Wagner, Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow, Martin B. Keller, David Brent

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Objective: Nonadherence to antidepressant treatment may contribute to poor outcome and to suicidal adverse events in adolescent depression. We examine the relationship between adherence and both clinical response and suicidal events in participants in the Treatment of Resistant Depression in Adolescents (TORDIA) study. Method: The relationship between adherence to medication and clinical outcome was assessed in 190 treatment-resistant depressed adolescents who were randomized to one of four cells: switch to another selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), switch to venlafaxine, or either of these two medication switches plus cognitive behavioral therapy. Plasma levels of antidepressant drug and metabolites were determined after 6 and 12 weeks of treatment. A twofold or greater variation in the dose-adjusted concentration of drug plus metabolites (level/dose ratio [LDR]) was defined as nonadherence. Nonadherence was also determined by clinician pill counts (CPC) of the proportion of prescribed pills that were unused and was defined as having greater than 30% of the prescribed pills remaining. Results: LDR and CPC showed low concordance. LDR was unrelated to clinical response. CPC adherence was related to a higher response rate overall (adherent, 63.0% versus nonadherent, 47.2%, p = .03). Approximately half (50.8%) of the sample surveyed showed evidence of nonadherence by CPC. Neither measure of adherence was related to the occurrence of suicidal events or to the pace of decline in suicidal ideation. Conclusions: Clinician pill counts may be a relevant measure of adherence that is related to outcome under formal clinical trial conditions in depressed adolescents. Nonadherence appears to be a common and significant source of treatment nonresponse. Clinical Trial Registration InformationTreatment of SSRI-Resistant Depression in Adolescents (TORDIA); http://www.clinicaltrials.gov; NCT00018902.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	490-498
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume	50
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2011.01.018
State	Published - May 2011

Keywords

antidepressants
depression
medication adherence

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Developmental and Educational Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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Woldu, H., Porta, G., Goldstein, T., Sakolsky, D., Perel, J., Emslie, G., Mayes, T., Clarke, G., Ryan, N. D., Birmaher, B., Wagner, K. D., Asarnow, J. R., Keller, M. B., & Brent, D. (2011). Pharmacokinetically and clinician-determined adherence to an antidepressant regimen and clinical outcome in the TORDIA Trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 50(5), 490-498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2011.01.018

Woldu, H, Porta, G, Goldstein, T, Sakolsky, D, Perel, J, Emslie, G, Mayes, T, Clarke, G, Ryan, ND, Birmaher, B, Wagner, KD, Asarnow, JR, Keller, MB & Brent, D 2011, 'Pharmacokinetically and clinician-determined adherence to an antidepressant regimen and clinical outcome in the TORDIA Trial', Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 490-498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2011.01.018

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