This is a recording of a Cochrane Common Mental Disorders Review Webinar. It includes an introduction and discussion of a Cochrane Systematic Review 'Pharmacy‐based management for depression in adults'.
Listen to the panel discuss what the review findings mean and what they think needs to happen next.
It could be that pharmacists and their teams can help people with their depression treatment in ways that their family doctor (general practitioner (GP)) cannot. Pharmacies are based within the community, easier to get to, and people may feel more comfortable telling a pharmacist about their mood. However, there are not many studies to tell us if this works.
The review found no evidence of a difference between pharmacy‐based management for depression in adults compared with treatment as usual in facilitating depression symptom change. Based on numbers of participants leaving the trials early, there may be no difference in acceptability between pharmacy‐based management and controls. However, there was uncertainty due to the low‐certainty evidence.
Full reference:
Brown JVE, Walton N, Meader N, Todd A, Webster LAD, Steele R, Sampson SJ, Churchill R, McMillan D, Gilbody S, Ekers D.
Pharmacy‐based management for depression in adults.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019, Issue 12. Art. No.: CD013299. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD013299.pub2
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