Problemi di psicoterapia
Journal title RUOLO TERAPEUTICO (il)
Author/s Paolo Migone
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/112
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 45-56 File size 339 KB
DOI 10.3280/RT2009-112006
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Real efficacy of antidepressant drugs in psychiatric practice - Kirsch et al. (2002) studied all 47 randomized clinical trials (RCT) submitted by pharmaceutical companies to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of the six most prescribed Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) antidepressants. The mean difference between drug and placebo was less than 2 points on the 21-item (62- point) Hamilton Depression Scale (which is the version used in many of the these RTCs). This superiority to placebo, although statistically significant, was not clinically significant. Furthermore, 57% of the trials funded by the pharmaceutical industry failed to show a significant difference between drug and placebo. Most of these negative data were not published and were accessible only thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. Also other studies confirming this research (Whittington et al., 2004; Moncrieff & Hardy, 2007; Turner et al., 2008) are presented. These data are discussed in light of the wider problem of the roles of interpersonal relationship in psychiatric practice.
KEY WORDS: antidepressants drugs, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI), placebo, Kirsch, Randomized Clinical Trials (RCT)]
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Paolo Migone, Problemi di psicoterapia in "RUOLO TERAPEUTICO (il)" 112/2009, pp 45-56, DOI: 10.3280/RT2009-112006