Premium
Matching to preferred depression treatment does not improve likelihood of remission
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30241
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , medicine , matching (statistics) , outcome (game theory) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , psychology , pathology , economics , macroeconomics , mathematics , mathematical economics
A study designed to identify predictors of treatment outcome in patients with depression has found that while patients who were matched to their preferred treatment were more likely to complete the study, they were no more likely to achieve remission of symptoms. Despite this finding, the researchers suggested that asking patients whether they prefer medication or behavioral therapy for their depression can reveal beneficial information. Study results were published online March 24 in the American Journal of Psychiatry .