No evidence that CBT is less effective than antidepressants in moderate to severe depression.

Some guidelines for the treatment of severe depression recommend that antidepressant medication be used instead of cognitive –behavioural therapy (CBT). This is inconsistent with evidence collating individual patient data (IPD) from multiple randomised controlled trials (RCTs).1 IPD meta analyses are one way of increasing statistical power and analysing depressive symptoms of varying severity. A previous IPD meta analys is included only four studies, so may still have lacked statistical power.
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