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Older adults' acceptance of psychological and pharmacological treatments for depression
Author(s)Philippe Landreville, Julie Landry, Lucie Baillargeon
Journal titleJournals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 5, September 2001
Pagespp P285-P291
KeywordsDepression ; Drugs ; Psychiatric treatment ; Canada.
Annotation200 Canadians aged 65+ recruited from four different family medicine clinics rated the acceptability of 3 different treatments for geriatric depression: cognitive therapy (CT); cognitive bibliotherapy (CB); and antidepressant medication (AM). Acceptability of the treatments is a function of the severity of a depressed patient's symptoms to whom they might be applied. CT and CB were rated as more acceptable than AM where patient symptoms were mild to moderate. However, CT was more acceptable than both CB and AM when patient symptoms were described as severe. Acceptability ratings were not related to the raters' own depressive symptoms. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-011025204 A
ClassmarkENR: LLD: LP: 7S

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