Exploring personalized psychotherapy for depression: A system dynamics approach.

ABSTRACT: Depressive disorders are the leading contributor to medical disability, yet only 22% of depressed patients receive adequate treatment in a given year. Response to treatment varies widely among individuals with depression, and poor response to one treatment does not signal poor response to others. In fact, half of patients who do not recover from a first-line psychotherapy will recover from a second option. Attempts to personalize psychotherapy to patient characteristics have produced better outcomes than usual care, but research on personalized psychotherapy is still in its infancy. The present study explores a new method for personalizing psychotherapy for depression through simulation modeling. In this study, we developed a system dynamics simulation model of depression based on one of t

SUBMITTER: Wittenborn AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9612473 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature