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What is the effectiveness of interventions to improve adherence to antidepressant medicine in patients with unipolar depression?

April 26, 2017adherence antidepressant depression Interventions Medicine Patients Unipolar

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What is the effectiveness of interventions to improve adherence to antidepressant medicine in patients with unipolar depression?

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This review summarised the effectiveness of patient education and collaborative care to improve adherence to antidepressants and the symptoms of depression over 2 weeks to 12 months. Patient education ranged from notifying patients of side effects, reviewing information leaflets with patients to mailed personalised information. Collaborative care is a multimodal collaborative approach affecting patient, physician and the system where interventions can include patient education, psychiatrist and psychologist involvement in care, extended nurse involvement and telehealth care.