Initial severity of depression and efficacy of cognitive-behavioural therapy: individual-participant data meta-analysis of pill-placebo-controlled trials [Review articles]

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.

Source: The British Journal of Psychiatry - February 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Furukawa, T. A., Weitz, E. S., Tanaka, S., Hollon, S. D., Hofmann, S. G., Andersson, G., Twisk, J., DeRubeis, R. J., Dimidjian, S., Hegerl, U., Mergl, R., Jarrett, R. B., Vittengl, J. R., Watanabe, N., Cuijpers, P. Tags: Review articles Source Type: research