Major Depression Does Respond to 'Minor' Tools

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We need the real thing, accept no substitutes.
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http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Depression/37557?
Patients with more severe depression gain as much clinical benefit from low-intensity interventions, such as self-help books and websites, as those with less severe depression, researchers found.
In a meta-analysis, patients who were more severely depressed at baseline had larger treatment effects with low-intensity interventions than those who were less depressed (coefficient -0.1, 95% CI -0.19 to -0.002), reported Peter Bower, PhD, of the University of Manchester in England, and colleagues online in BMJ.
They cautioned, however, that the magnitude of the interaction was small and may not be clinically significant. Still, it is possible that patients with "more severe depression can be offered low-intensity interventions as part of a stepped-care model."
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