Which elderly depressed patients remain well on maintenance Interpersonal Psychotherapy alone?: Report from the Pittsburgh Study of Maintenance Therapies in late-life depression

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 55-60

  Taylor, Matthew P ^a   Reynolds III, Charles E ^a   Frank, Ellen ^a   Cornes, Cleon ^a   Miller, Mark D ^a   Stack, Jacqueline A ^a   Begley, Amy E ^a   Mazumdar, Sati ^a   Dew, Mary Amanda ^a   Kupfer, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatric depression; Maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELDERLY CARE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032738090     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1999)10:2<55::AID-DA3>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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