Authors
Michael Barkham, David Saxon, Gillian E Hardy, Mike Bradburn, Deanna Galloway, Nyantara Wickramasekera, Anju D Keetharuth, Peter Bower, Michael King, Robert Elliott, Lynne Gabriel, Stephen Kellett, Susan Shaw, Toni Wilkinson, Janice Connell, Phillippa Harrison, Kerry Ardern, Lindsey Bishop-Edwards, Kate Ashley, Sally Ohlsen, Stephen Pilling, Glenn Waller, John E Brazier
Publication date
2021/6/1
Journal
The Lancet Psychiatry
Volume
8
Issue
6
Pages
487-499
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
The UK Government's implementation in 2008 of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative in England has hugely increased the availability of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for the treatment of depression and anxiety in primary care. Counselling for depression—a form of person-centred experiential therapy (PCET)—has since been included as an IAPT-approved therapy, but there is no evidence of its efficacy from randomised controlled trials (RCTs), as required for recommendations by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Therefore, we aimed to examine whether PCET is cost effective and non-inferior to CBT in the treatment of moderate and severe depression within the IAPT service.
Methods
This pragmatic, randomised, non-inferiority trial was done in the Sheffield IAPT service in England and recruited participants aged 18 years or older with moderate or …
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