While Monitoring a Depressed Patient Who Has Just Started SSRI

question 4

Multiple Choice

While monitoring a depressed patient who has just started SSRI antidepressant therapy, the nurse will observe for which problem during the early time frame of this therapy?

• A) Hypertensive crisis
• B) Self-injury or suicidal tendencies
• C) Extrapyramidal symptoms
• D) Loss of appetite

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Definitions:

Durbin-Watson D Statistic

A statistical tool designed to determine the existence of first-lag autocorrelation in the residuals of a regression analysis.

Regression Analysis

A statistical method for investigating the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables.

Durbin-Watson Statistic

A measure used in statistics to find out whether autocorrelation at lag one occurs in the residuals after performing a regression analysis.

First-Order Autocorrelation

The correlation of a signal with a delayed version of itself, particularly measuring the correlation between values that are one time period apart.