Defending psychiatry or defending the trivial effects of therapeutic interventions? A citation content analysis of an influential paper.

ABSTRACT: AIMS:Leucht et al. in 2012 described an overview of meta-analyses of the efficacy of medication in psychiatry and general medicine, concluding that psychiatric drugs were not less efficacious than other drugs. Our goal was to explore the dissemination of this highly cited paper, which combined a thought provoking message with a series of caveats. METHODS:We conducted a prospectively registered citation content analysis. All papers published before June 1st citing the target paper were independently rated by two investigators. The primary outcome coded dichotomously was whether the citation was used to justify a small or modest effect observed for a given treatment. Secondary outcomes regarded mentioning any caveats when citing the target paper, the point the citation was making (treatment

SUBMITTER: Cristea IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6998859 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature