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Introduction: Psychiatric disorders form an important public health priority and major causes of morbidity. Drug utilization studies are a pre-requisite for the formulation of drug policies. This review identifies the problems that arise from drug usage in health care delivery system and highlights the current approaches to the rational use of drugs. Objectives: to delineate the various drugs used in psychiatric disorders to find discrepancies, if any, between the actual and the ideal prescribing pattern of psychotropic drugs and to assess prevalence of various psychiatric illnesses . Methodology: The retrospective non-interventional, study of 6 months duration (1 Apr 2015 30 Sep 2015) was carried out by analyzing the copies of prescriptions of patients who had visited the O.P.D. of the Psychiatry Department of J.L.N. Medical College & Associate groups of Hospitals Ajmer. After taking prior approval from Institutional Ethics Committee. we randomly collected 135 copies for each month, a total of 810 carbon copies were selected for study. Result: Maximum number of patient’s i.e. 395 (48.77%) were in the age group of 21-40 years. Depression was the most common psychiatric illness (27.53%) followed by substance abuse (18.15%).Oral formulations accounts for 99.55% of total drugs prescribed and among oral formulations; tablet (88.43%) was the most prescribed dosage form. Most common classes of drugs prescribed for psychiatric indication were anxiolytics (26.95%) followed by antidepressants (15.28%), antipsychotics (14.43%), anticonvulsants & mood stabilizers (7.87%).Among antianxiety drugs, Clonazepam (45.84%), Escitalopram (29.79%) was the antidepressant of choice overall Olanzapine was most commonly prescribed antipsychotics. Among typical agents, Chlorpromazine (9.23%) was the most commonly prescribed antipsychotic. Sodium Valproate was the most commonly prescribed as anticonvulsant (46.25%) & mood stabilizer (49.38%).

Drug Utilization Pattern of Psychotropic Drugs Prescribed in the Psychiatric Department of a Tertiary Care Government Hospital, Rajasthan