A Patient Has Been Taking Amitriptyline for 5 to 6

question 24

Multiple Choice

A patient has been taking amitriptyline for 5 to 6 days,but she is still experiencing the feelings of depression.She wants the doctor to change her medication because she feels that the drug is not working.After doing research on amitriptyline,you tell the patient that:

• A) amitriptyline is working, but the full antidepressant effect can take as long as 2 to 4 weeks to develop.
• B) amitriptyline is not working and the doctor will change her medication.
• C) amitriptyline is working, but the full antidepressant effect can take as long as 7 to 10 days to develop.
• D) None of the above are correct.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter at a given confidence level.

Population Proportion

The fraction of the population that possesses a particular attribute, characteristic, or trait.

Standard Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in statistical analysis to represent standardized values of a dataset.

Confidence Interval

A span of numerical values, calculated from sample data, speculated to potentially contain the value of an unknown population parameter.