{"id":7020,"date":"2020-10-23T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:00:17","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-20-years-or-older-who-used-antidepressant-medications-in-the-past-30-days-by-sex-and-marital-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/10\/23\/7020\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 20 Years or Older Who Used Antidepressant Medications in the Past 30 Days by Sex and Marital Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6942a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6942a8-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2015\u20132018, 13.6% of adults aged 20 years or older used prescription antidepressant medications in the past 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>Antidepressant use was higher among divorced, separated, or widowed (20.5%) adults than among either married or living with partner (12.3%) or never married (10.8%) adults.<\/p>\n<p>There was no difference in use between married and never married adults.<\/p>\n<p>These same patterns were observed for both men and women. Within every marital status category, a higher percentage of women compared with men took antidepressants.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0Brody DJ, Gu Q. Antidepressant use among adults: United States, 2015\u20132018. NCHS Data Brief, no 377. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6942a8.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6942a8.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2015\u20132018, 13.6% of adults aged 20 years or older used prescription antidepressant medications in the past 30 days. Antidepressant use was higher among divorced, separated, or widowed (20.5%) adults than among either married or living with partner (12.3%) or never married (10.8%) adults. There was no difference in use between married and never married<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62222,63660,50899],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}