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The efficacy of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy in treating depressive and anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis of direct comparisons

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A meta‐analysis of studies in which psychotherapy and antidepressant medication were directly compared in the treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders found that pharmacotherapy was significantly more efficacious than psychotherapy in dysthymia, and psychotherapy wasificantly more efficacity than pharmacotherapy in obsessive‐compulsive disorder.
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This article is published in World Psychiatry.The article was published on 2013-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 378 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Anxiety & Pharmacotherapy.

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The efficacy of smartphone-based mental health interventions for depressive symptoms: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

TL;DR: Results indicate that smartphone devices are a promising self‐management tool for depression, and future research should aim to distil which aspects of these technologies produce beneficial effects, and for which populations.
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