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Depression
Study Suggests Treatment Should Take Health Beliefs into Account
September 9th, 2000
A treatment plan for depression should include nonmedical factors based on a patient's own health beliefs, a new study reports. "Understanding the patient factors associated with good treatment results would allow clinicians to customize depression treatments to particular patient profiles - and thus minimize relapse or recurrence," said Charlotte Brown, PhD, of the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, in Pennsylvania. She is the lead author of the article that appeared in the July/August 2000 issue of General Hospital Psychiatry. Studies of depressed patients tend to focus on...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2000-09-09)
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