Effects of Patient Preferences on Outcomes in the Predictors of Remission in Depression to Individual and Combined Treatments (PReDICT) Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Treatment guidelines that recommend either an evidence-based psychotherapy or antidepressant medication for nonpsychotic major depression can be extended to treatment-naive patients. Treatment preferences among patients without prior treatment exposure do not significantly moderate symptomatic outcomes. PMID: 28335624 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28335624?dopt=Abstract

Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - March 24, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dunlop BW, Kelley ME, Aponte-Rivera V, Mletzko-Crowe T, Kinkead B, Ritchie JC, Nemeroff CB, Craighead WE, Mayberg HS, PReDICT Team Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research