Psychological therapy vs usual care or attention control: Depression: meeting study criteria for depression at end of
It is very uncertain whether psychological therapy changes depression: meeting study criteria for depression at end of… compared with usual care and/or attention control (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Psychological therapy vs usual care and/or attention control Depression: meeting study criteria for depression at end of treatment (primary outcome) · people with depression after stroke It is very uncertain whether psychological therapy changes depression: meeting study criteria for depression at end of… compared with usual care and/or attention control (very low certainty). Pharmacological, non‐invasive brain stimulation and psychological interventions, and their combination, for… (2023) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.77 [0.62, 0.95] | 6 studies · 521 participants | Very low |
Psychological therapy vs usual care and/or attention control Depression: meeting study criteria for depression at end of · people with depression after stroke It is very uncertain whether psychological therapy changes depression: meeting study criteria for depression at end of compared with usual care and/or attention control (very low certainty). Pharmacological, non‐invasive brain stimulation and psychological interventions, and their combination, for… (2023) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.85 [0.59, 1.21] | 3 studies · 201 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacological, non‐invasive brain stimulation and psychological interventions, and their combination, for treating depression after stroke 2023 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.