A specialist service offering a tailored approach to treating patients with severe depression is more effective than usual mental health care but comes at a higher cost, research led by academics at The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has revealed.
The study, published in Lancet Psychiatry and funded through NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs) in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½shire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, East Midlands, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and the Medical Research Council (MRC), is the first ever trial of its kind into a specialist service for the most severely depressed patients in mental health services.
It found that after 18 months of using the service patients reported a significant improvement in their symptoms compared to those using usual mental health services.
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