The symptom‐specific efficacy of antidepressant medication vs. cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of depression: results from an individual patient data meta‐analysis

Boschloo, Lynn; Bekhuis, Ella; Weitz, Erica; Reijnders, Mirjam; J. DeRubeis, Robert; Dimidjian, Sona; L. Dünner, David; W. Dunlop, Boadie; Hegerl, Ulrich; D. Hollon, Steven; B. Jarrett, Robin; H. Kennedy, Sidney; Miranda, Jeanne; C. Mohr, David; D. Simons, Anne; Parker, Gordon; Petrak, Frank; Herpertz, Stephan; C. Quilty, Lena; John Rush, A.; V. Segal, Zindel; R. Vittengl, Jeffrey; A. Schoevers, Robert; Cuijpers, Pim

doi:10.1002/wps.20630

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The symptom‐specific efficacy of antidepressant medication vs. cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of depression: results from an individual patient data meta‐analysis

Published in World Psychiatry • May 6, 2019

Authors:

Lynn Boschloo

Ella Bekhuis

Erica Weitz

Abstract

A recent individual patient data meta-analysis showed that antidepressant medication is slightly more efficacious than cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in reducing overall depression severity in patients with a DSM-defined depressive disorder. We used an update of that dataset, based on seventeen ...

Subject

Medicine

Antidepressant

Mood

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