Benefits of Sequentially Adding Cognitive Behavior Therapy or Antidepressant Medication in Non-remitting Depressed Adults

Autor: Steven P. Cole, Charles B. Nemeroff, Becky Kinkead, Boadie W. Dunlop, W. Edward Craighead, Devon LoParo, Helen S. Mayberg, Tanja Mletzko-Crowe
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Citalopram
Duloxetine Hydrochloride
behavioral disciplines and activities
Article
Stress Disorders
Post-Traumatic

03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Depressive Disorder
Treatment-Resistant

0302 clinical medicine
Sertraline
mental disorders
medicine
Duloxetine
Escitalopram
Initial treatment
Humans
Treatment Failure
Psychiatry
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Depressive Disorder
Major

Depressive Disorder
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
business.industry
Depression
medicine.disease
Combined Modality Therapy
Antidepressive Agents
030227 psychiatry
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Psychiatry and Mental health
Antidepressant medication
chemistry
Major depressive disorder
Anxiety
Female
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
medicine.drug
Popis: Adults with major depressive disorder frequently do not achieve remission with an initial treatment. Addition of psychotherapy for patients who do not achieve remission with antidepressant medication alone can target residual symptoms and protect against recurrence, but the utility of adding antidepressant medication after nonremission with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has received little study. The authors aimed to evaluate the acute and long-term outcomes resulting from both sequences of combination treatments.Previously untreated adults with major depression who were randomly assigned to receive escitalopram, duloxetine, or CBT monotherapy and completed 12 weeks of treatment without achieving remission entered an additional 12 weeks of combination treatment. For patients who did not achieve remission with CBT, escitalopram was added (CBT plus medication group) to their treatment, and for those who did not achieve remission with an antidepressant, CBT was added (medication plus CBT group) to their treatment. Patients who responded to the combination treatment entered an 18-month follow-up phase to assess risk of recurrence.A total of 112 patients who did not achieve remission with a monotherapy entered combination treatment (41 who responded to monotherapy but did not achieve remission and 71 who did not respond to monotherapy). Overall, remission rates after subsequent combination therapy were significantly higher among patients who responded to monotherapy but did not achieve remission (61%) than among patients who did not respond to monotherapy (41%). Among patients who responded to monotherapy but did not achieve remission, the remission rate in the CBT plus medication group (89%) was higher than in the medication plus CBT group (53%). However, among patients whose depression did not respond to monotherapy, rates of response and remission were similar between the treatment arms. Higher levels of anxiety, both prior to monotherapy and prior to beginning combination treatment, predicted poorer outcomes for both treatment groups.The order in which CBT and antidepressant medication were sequentially combined did not appear to affect outcomes. Addition of an antidepressant is an effective approach to treating residual symptoms for patients who do not achieve remission with CBT, as is adding CBT after antidepressant monotherapy. Patients who do not respond to one treatment modality warrant consideration for addition of the alternative modality.
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