Trajectories of depression and anxiety symptom severity during psychological therapy for common mental health problems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is substantial variation in patient symptoms following psychological therapy for depression and anxiety. However, reliance on endpoint outcomes ignores additional interindividual variation during therapy. Knowing a patient's likely symptom trajectories could guide clinical decisions. We aimed to identify latent classes of patients with similar symptom trajectories over the course of psychological therapy and explore associations between baseline variables and trajectory class.

Methods

Patients received high-intensity psychological treatment for common mental health problems at National Health Service Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services in South London (N = 16 258). To identify trajectories, we performed growth mixture modelling of dep

SUBMITTER: Skelton M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10520600 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature