EVIDENCE-BASED MENTAL HEALTH
Review: Psychotherapy for adolescents with depression: initial but no sustainable benefits
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Norio Watanabe
Norio Watanabe, Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku Nagoya 467-8601, Japan; norio@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp
QUESTION
Is psychotherapy an effective way to treat children and adolescents with depression?
Risk of response, defined as score below the threshold for diagnosis of depression on whichever scale the study used—"operationalized criteria" or "a validated depression severity measure". Secondary outcomes were cost and safety of treatment.
METHODS
Systematic review with meta-analysis.
Cochrane CENTRAL, MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, EMBASE, PSYNDEX, LILACS, conference proceedings and hand searches of journals; performed by searching the Cochrane Collaboration Depression, Anxiety and Neurosis Registers on 17 December 2004. Additional supplementary search of CENTRAL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and EMBASE was carried out, and from the selected papers, reference lists were examined and lead authors contacted for further data on other trials.
Individual or cluster randomised controlled trials of any psychotherapy (PT) versus no treatment, attention-placebo,
Werry Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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