Amy Coe
University of Melbourne
Thesis Title
Antidepressant deprescribing: An investigation of what, who, how and why it works for primary care patients.
Supervisor
Prof Jane Gunn and Dr Cath Kaylor-Hughes
Research Questions
RQ 1: What deprescribing activities currently exist for GPs and patients to use in primary care?
RQ 2: What reasons do primary care patients have for reducing or stopping their antidepressant medications and can they inform deprescribing activities for use in clinical practice?
RQ 3: What are the mechanisms and contexts that support antidepressant users to successfully deprescribe?
Whose research influences you?
Prof Jane Gunn, Dr Cath Kaylor-Hughes, Prof Victoria Palmer, Prof Tony Kendrick and my PhD peers.
Are you a lived-experience researcher?
Yes.
If so, how does lived or consumer experience shape your research?
It makes me a more compassionate and empathetic researcher which is particularly evident in conducting qualitative interviewing, the design of a study and the interpretation of results. It also guides my research interests in the mental health treatment space.
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