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- Cuijpers, Pim, et al.
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THE COMBINATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PHARMACOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF ADULT DEPRESSION: A COMPREHENSIVE META-ANALYSIS
- 2015
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Ingår i: JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOTHERAPIES. - : INT INST ADVANCED STUDIES PSYCHOTHERAPY and APPLIED MENTAL HEALTH. - 2360-0853. ; 15:2, s. 147-168
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- No meta-analysis in the field of depression has examined the effects of combined treatment compared with pill placebo, nor has any meta-analysis integrated the comparison of combined treatment against pharmacotherapy alone and psychotherapy alone (i.e., mono treatments). In this comprehensive meta-analysis, we found that combined treatment had a moderate effect on depression compared with pill placebo (g=0.46), and small to moderate effects compared against pharmacotherapy (g=0.38) alone, psychotherapy (g=0.34) alone, and psychotherapy plus placebo (g=0.23). There were some indications for publication bias when combined therapy was compared against placebo (adjusted effect size g=0.31). In multivariate metaregression analyses we found no significant differential predictors for the four comparisons. There were some indications that the use of interpersonal psychotherapy in the combined treatment was associated with a smaller effect size, but this has to be considered with caution, because of the correlational nature of this association. Despite limitations (small number of studies; suboptimal quality of studies) this meta-analysis suggests that combined treatment of depression may be the best treatment available for adult depression, and that it is significantly more effective than placebo, pharmacotherapy alone, psychotherapy alone and the combination of psychotherapy and placebo.
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- Cuijpers, Pim, et al.
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The effects of psychological treatment of maternal depression on children and parental functioning : a meta-analysis.
- 2015
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Ingår i: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1018-8827 .- 1435-165X. ; 24:2, s. 237-245
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Successful treatment of parental depression may have a positive effect on the functioning and psychopathology of their children. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the effects of psychotherapy for depressed mothers on their children and parental functioning. We used a database of randomized controlled trials examining the effects of psychotherapy for adult depression and selected trials comparing psychotherapy and control conditions in depressed mothers and reporting outcomes in their children and parental functioning. Nine studies were included. The quality of these studies was not optimal and the outcome instruments differed considerably from each other. The therapies resulted in significantly decreased levels of depression (g = 0.66) in the mothers. In the seven studies that reported outcomes on the mental health of children, a significant effect size was also found (g = 0.40). The eight studies examining mother-child interactions resulted in a significant effect size of g = 0.35, and the five studies examining parenting/marital distress had a pooled effect size of g = 0.67. We found that psychotherapy leads to decreased levels of depression in depressed mothers and also found indications that psychotherapy may have a positive effect on the mental health of their children and parenting/marital distress. However, more high-quality research is needed before a definite answer can be given.
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- Cuijpers, Pim, et al.
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The effects of psychotherapies for major depression in adults on remission, recovery and improvement: A meta-analysis
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Affective Disorders. - : Elsevier. - 0165-0327 .- 1573-2517. ; 159, s. 118-126
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Standardised effect sizes have been criticized because they are difficult to interpret and offer little clinical information. This meta-analyses examine the extent of actual improvement, the absolute numbers of patients no longer meeting criteria for major depression, and absolute rates of response and remission. Methods: We conducted a meta-analysis of 92 studies with 181 conditions (134 psychotherapy and 47 control conditions) with 6937 patients meeting criteria for major depressive disorder. Within these conditions, we calculated the absolute number of patients no longer meeting criteria for major depression, rates of response and remission, and the absolute reduction on the BDI, BDI-II and HAM-D. Results: After treatment, 62% of patients no longer met criteria for MDD in the psychotherapy conditions. However, 43% of participants in the control conditions and 48% of people in the care-as-usual conditions no longer met criteria for MDD, suggesting that the additional value of psychotherapy compared to care-as-usual would be 14%. For response and remission, comparable results were found, with less than half of the patients meeting criteria for response and remission after psychotherapy. Additionally, a considerable proportion of response and remission was also found in control conditions. In the psychotherapy conditions, scores on the BDl were reduced by 13.42 points, 15.12 points on the BDI-II, and 10.28 points on the HAM-D. In the control conditions, these reductions were 4.56, 4.68, and 5.29. Discussion: Psychotherapy contributes to improvement in depressed patients, but improvement in control conditions is also considerable.
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- Furukawa, Toshi A., et al.
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Initial severity of depression and efficacy of cognitive-behavioural therapy: individual-participant data meta-analysis of pill-placebo-controlled trials
- 2017
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Ingår i: British Journal of Psychiatry. - : ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS. - 0007-1250 .- 1472-1465. ; 210:3, s. 190-196
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background The influence of baseline severity has been examined for antidepressant medications but has not been studied properly for cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in comparison with pill placebo. Aims To synthesise evidence regarding the influence of initial severity on efficacy of CBT from all randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in which CBT, in face-to-face individual or group format, was compared with pill-placebo control in adults with major depression. Method A systematic review and an individual-participant data meta-analysis using mixed models that included trial effects as random effects. We used multiple imputation to handle missing data. Results We identified five RCTs, and we were given access to individual-level data (n=509) for all five. The analyses revealed that the difference in changes in Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression between CBT and pill placebo was not influenced by baseline severity (interaction P=0.43). Removing the non-significant interaction term from the model, the difference between CBT and pill placebo was a standardised mean difference of 0.22 (95% CI 0.42 to 0.02, P=0.03, l(2)=0%). Conclusions Patients suffering from major depression can expect as much benefit from CBT across the wide range of baseline severity. This finding can help inform individualised treatment decisions by patients and their clinicians.
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