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Article: Cognitive therapy for depression.(Clinical report)
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- Bandolier
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Does talking make medical conditions better? Preconceptions do not prevent us thinking out criteria necessary to test whether talking works. For talking here, read cognitive therapy, and for a condition, depression.
Trials should include active and placebo comparators to demonstrate superiority of talking to pill taking. That ensures sensitivity. One might choose several outcomes, like some form of depression measure, a defined level of improvement, say, plus a higher level of improvement equivalent to being better (or no worse than if your football team lost on Saturday). A long trial would examine what happened when cognitive therapy stopped.
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