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Is psychotherapy for depression equally effective in younger and older adults?
— A meta-regression analysis | | Author(s) | Pim Cuijpers, Annemieke van Straten, Filip Smit |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 21, no 1, February 2009 |
| Pages | pp 16-24 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Depression ; Psychiatric treatment ; Therapy ; Reliability ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Clinical surveys ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | It is well established that psychotherapy is effective in the treatment of depression in younger as well as in older adults. Whether psychotherapy is equally effective in younger and older age groups has not been examined in meta-analytic research. The researchers conducted a systematic literature search and included 112 studies with 170 comparisons between a psychotherapy and a control group (with a total of 7,845 participants). 20 studies with 26 comparisons were aimed at older adults. No indication was found that psychotherapy was more or less effective for older adults compared to younger adults. The effect sizes of both groups of comparisons did not differ significantly from each other. In a multivariate meta-regression analysis, in which the researchers controlled for major characteristics of the participants, the interventions and the study designs, no indication of a difference between psychotherapy in younger and older adults was found. There appears to be no significant difference between psychotherapy in younger and older adults, although it is not clear whether this is also true for clinical samples, patients with more severe depression, and the oldest old. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090825225 A |
| Classmark | ENR: LP: LO: 5HC: BB: SD6: 3G: 64A |
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