MDD is often linked with insomnia, affecting patients’ QoL through anxiety, sleep deprivation, impaired productivity, and other symptoms. We surveyed healthcare professionals’ globally to explore the impact of MDD with severe insomnia on patients and health economics, as well as satisfaction with treatment strategies and patterns..
An online survey was distributed to primary care physicians, psychiatrists, physician’s assistants, and nurse practitioners from the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Belgium, Brazil, and Australia.
The respondents had to
The survey took ~40 minutes, and comprised four patient record forms (PRFs), from patients that:
Based on their experience managing patients with MDD with insomnia, the physicians reported that the QoL and productivity of patients with MDD-CRIS is significantly worse than those with MDD and mild insomnia. Area such as employability were highly affected seeing an average of 67 days off work for patients with MDD-CRIS across the EMEA region and across the whole sample, up to 47% of patients were unemployed – this is highly problematic when treatment incurs direct costs on most local European healthcare systems. The physicians also agreed that treatment of MDD gets harder as severity of insomnia increases. All factors necessitate a need for further research into MDD, insomnia and their interrelationship as well as novel treatments/strategies.
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