Increase in Work Productivity of Depressed Individuals With Improvement in Depressive Symptom Severity.

CONCLUSIONS Patients with clinically significant reductions in symptom severity during initial treatment were more likely than nonresponders to experience significant improvements in work productivity. In contrast, patients who achieved symptom remission in second-step treatment continued to have impairment at work. Patients who have demonstrated some degree of treatment resistance are more prone to persistent impairment in occupational productivity, implying a need for additional, possibly novel, treatments. PMID: 23558394 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - April 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Trivedi MH, Morris DW, Wisniewski SR, Lesser I, Nierenberg AA, Daly E, Kurian BT, Gaynes BN, Balasubramani GK, Rush AJ Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research