Personalising psychotherapies for depression using a novel mixed methods approach: an example from Morita therapy.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Current quantitative methods for personalising psychotherapies for depression are unlikely to be able to inform clinical decision-making for hundreds of years. Novel alternative methods to generate hypotheses for prospective testing are therefore required, and we showcase mixed methods as one such approach. By exploring patients' perspectives in depth, and integrating qualitative and quantitative data at the level of the individual, we may identify new potential psychosocial predictors of psychotherapy outcomes, potentially informing the personalisation of depression treatment in a shorter timeframe. Using Morita therapy (a Japanese psychotherapy) as an exemplar, we thus explored how Morita therapy recipients' views on treatment acceptability explain their adherence and response

SUBMITTER: Sugg HVR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6950935 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature