What Is the Best Treatment for Depression?

Published June 14, 2013

What is the best treatment for depression? – Dr. Eric Kuelker discusses the scientific research as to which is the better treatment for depression: anti-depressant pills, or psychotherapy.

Improved targeting of depression treatment needed in community settings
Relatively little is known about the prevalence and correlates of over diagnosis of depression in community settings. This study examined the extent to which individuals with clinician-identified depression in the community meet the criteria for DSM-IV … Read more on News-Medical.net

IQWiG tests suitability of AHP method for identifying preferences of patients …
Using the example of depression, IQWiG tested whether the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method is in principle suitable to find out which preferences patients have regarding treatment goals. As the pilot project shows, this is the case. An AHP could … Read more on News-Medical.net