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Table 3 Antidepressant medication use of husband and wife by marital trajectory and follow-up period

From: Divorce and subsequent increase in uptake of antidepressant medication: a Finnish registry-based study on couple versus individual effects

   

First follow-up (crisis period)

Second follow-up (short-term consequences)

   

Husband

Husband

   

No

Yes

No

Yes

Continuously married

Wife

No

102,507

2,159

101,082

2,610

  

94.4%

2.0%

93.0%

2.4%

 

Yes

3,785

186

4,568

377

  

3.5%

0.2%

4.2%

0.3%

Divorcing

Wife

No

3,671

332

3,915

222

  

80.5%

7.3%

85.9%

4.9%

 

Yes

505

50

390

31

  

11.1%

1.1%

8.6%

0.7%