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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Depression
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for depression.
Created July 2011
15 Resources Found
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| Title: | Psychological and educational interventions for preventing depression in children and adolescents |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Depressive disorder is common and has a major impact on the functioning of young people. The aim of this review was to assess the effectiveness of programmes designed to prevent its onset. We found that, compared with no intervention, psychological depr... |
| Date: | Jul 2010 |
| Title: | Psychological treatments for depression in young adults and adults born with heart problems |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Sometimes young adults and adults who are born with heart problems grow up and have depression. Treatments to help them other than anti-depressant drugs include psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapies and talking therapies. Benefits to having tre... |
| Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Title: | Relaxation for depression |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Many people with depression do not get treatment or delay getting treatment. One reason for this is that they do not like antidepressants. Another is the limited availability of specialized psychological treatments, such as cognitive-behaviour therapy. ... |
| Date: | Aug 2008 |
| Title: | Psychotherapy for depression among cancer patients who are incurable |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Depressive states represent frequent complications among cancer patients and are more common amongst advanced cancer patients. Psychotherapy comprises of various interventions for ameliorating or preventing psychological distress conducted by direct ver... |
| Date: | Feb 2008 |
| Title: | Interventions to improve occupational health in depressed people |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Work disability such as sickness absence or suboptimal work functioning is common in people with depression. However, we do not know how to effectively improve work ability in this group. The objective of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of ... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Music therapy for depression |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Music therapy has been used in a range of ways to treat depression. Approaches can be active or receptive: active techniques might be used when participants cannot articulate difficult feelings. Here the therapist uses clinical techniques to connect wit... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Psychotherapeutic treatments for older depressed people |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Depression is a common problem facing older people and is often associated with loneliness, physical illness and pain. The condition can last for some years and causes considerable distress and illness. A significant majority of depressed elders do not ... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Family therapy for depression |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review looks at whether family therapy is an effective intervention in treating people of any age with depression. Family therapy for depression is widely used, especially in the United Kingdom and the United States. The small number of randomised ... |
| Date: | May 2007 |
| Title: | Psychosocial and psychological interventions for treating antenatal depression |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Not enough evidence to say if non-drug interventions are effective in treating antenatal depression. Although for many women pregnancy was once thought of as a time of emotional wellbeing, approximately 12% of women will suffer from antenatal depression... |
| Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Title: | Exercise for depression |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Depression is a common and important illness affecting at least 1 in 5 people during their lifetime. Exercise has been advocated as an adjunct to usual treatment. This review identified all available randomised trials which compared exercise with either... |
| Date: | Mar 2007 |
| Title: | Psychosocial interventions for treating depression in dialysis patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Depression is the most common psychological problem in the chronic dialysis population and it affects their physical, mental and social well-being. The aim of this review was to determine the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions (e.g. cognitive b... |
| Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Title: | Marital therapy for depression |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Marital therapy has been suggested as a treatment for couples with a depressed spouse on the basis of the strong association between depressive symptoms and marital distress; the role played by marital negative factors on onset and maintenance of depres... |
| Date: | Feb 2006 |
| Title: | Psychological interventions for depression in heart failure |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | It is not known whether psychological interventions for people with heart failure reduce symptoms of depression and improve outcome. Occasionally adults with heart failure suffer from depression. Psychological interventions, such as cognitive-behavioura... |
| Date: | Nov 2004 |
| Title: | Light treatment for non-seasonal depression |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The reviewers conclude that the benefit of light treatment is modest though promising for non-seasonal depression. The short-term treatment as well as light administered in the morning and with concomitant sleep deprivation in sleep deprivation responde... |
| Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Title: | Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for depression |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Transcranial magnetic stimulation can either excite or inhibit cortical areas of the brain, depending on whether the speed of the repetitive stimulation is applied at high or low frequencies. It has been used for physiological studies and it has also be... |
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