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| A randomised controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy vs treatment as usual in the treatment of mild to moderate late life depression | | Author(s) | Ken Laidlaw, Kate Davidson, Hugh Toner |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 23, no 8, August 2008 |
| Pages | pp 843-850 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Psychiatric treatment ; Therapy ; Clinical surveys ; Fife ; Glasgow. |
| Annotation | An empirical evaluation of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) alone vs treatment as usual (TAU) alone (generally pharmacotherapy) for late life depression is provided. General practitioners (GPs) in Fife and Glasgow referred 114 participants to the study; 44 met inclusion criteria, and 40 provided data that permitted analysis. All participants had a diagnosis of mild to moderate major depressive episode, and were randomly assigned to receive either TAU alone or CBT alone. Participants to both treatment conditions benefited from treatment, with reduced scores on primary measures of mood at end of treatment and at 6 month follow-up. CBT on its own is shown to be an effective treatment procedure for mild to moderate late life depression and has utility as a treatment alternative for older people who cannot or will not tolerate physical treatment approaches for depression. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080819218 A |
| Classmark | ENR: LP: LO: 3G: 9EF: 9WC |
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