ERIC Number: EJ734199
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Publication Date: 2006-Feb
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One-Year Outcomes of a Randomized Clinical Trial Treating Depression in Low-Income Minority Women
Miranda, Jeanne; Green, Bonnie L.; Krupnick, Janice L.; Chung, Joyce; Siddique, Juned; Belin, Tom; Revicki, Dennis
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v74 n1 p99-111 Feb 2006
This study examines 1-year depressive symptom and functional outcomes of 267 predominantly low-income, young minority women randomly assigned to antidepressant medication, group or individual cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), or community referral. Seventy-six percent assigned to medications received 9 or more weeks of guideline-concordant doses of medications; 36% assigned to psychotherapy received 6 or more CBT sessions. Intent-to-treat, repeated measures analyses revealed that medication (p = 0.001) and CBT (p = 0.02) were superior to community referral in lowering depressive symptoms across 1-year follow-up. At Month 12, 50.9% assigned to antidepressants, 56.9% assigned to CBT, and 37.1% assigned to community referral were no longer clinically depressed. These findings suggest that both antidepressant medications and CBT result in clinically significant decreases in depression for low-income minority women.
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Low Income Groups, Females, Cognitive Restructuring, Referral, Psychotherapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Minority Groups, Drug Therapy, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Followup Studies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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