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Response to antidepressant treatment in a community mental health center
- Author:
- BASTIAENS Leo
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 40(6), December 2004, pp.561-567.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This study examines anti-depressant response after 6 months of treatment in 75 depressed patients in a community mental health clinic. Symptomatic and functional outcome measures were administered. A pharmacotherapy algorithm was followed.Many patients presented with chronic depressive disorders complicated by psychosocial problems and co-morbidity with substance use and other psychiatric and medical conditions. Level of functioning was seriously impaired. Attrition rate after 6 months was high (49%). Response rate after 6 months of treatment was 24%. Research studies cannot predict the response potential in the real world because of numerous complicating factors in the presentation and treatment of depression in the community.