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Psychological therapies for preventing seasonal affective disorder

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, November 2015
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Title
Psychological therapies for preventing seasonal affective disorder
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, November 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd011270.pub2
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Catherine A Forneris, Barbara Nussbaumer, Angela Kaminski‐Hartenthaler, Laura C Morgan, Bradley N Gaynes, Jeffrey H Sonis, Amy Greenblatt, Jörg Wipplinger, Linda J Lux, Dietmar Winkler, Megan G Van Noord, Julia Hofmann, Gerald Gartlehner

Abstract

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a seasonal pattern of recurrent major depressive episodes that most commonly occurs during autumn or winter and remits in spring. The prevalence of SAD ranges from 1.5% to 9%, depending on latitude. The predictable seasonal aspect of SAD provides a promising opportunity for prevention. This is one of four reviews on the efficacy and safety of interventions to prevent SAD; we focus on psychological therapies as preventive interventions. To assess the efficacy and safety of psychological therapies (in comparison with no treatment, other types of psychological therapy, second-generation antidepressants (SGAs), light therapy, melatonin or agomelatine or lifestyle interventions) in preventing SAD and improving patient-centred outcomes among adults with a history of SAD. We conducted a search of the Cochrane Depression, Anxiety and Neurosis Review Group Specialised Register (CCDANCTR) to 11 August 2015. The CCDANCTR contains reports of relevant randomised controlled trials from EMBASE (1974 to date), MEDLINE (1950 to date), PsycINFO (1967 to date) and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL). Furthermore, we searched the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Web of Knowledge, The Cochrane Library and the Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED) (to 26 May 2014). We conducted a grey literature search (e.g. in clinical trial registries) and handsearched the reference lists of all included studies and pertinent review articles. To examine efficacy, we planned to include randomised controlled trials on adults with a history of winter-type SAD who were free of symptoms at the beginning of the study. To examine adverse events, we intended to include non-randomised studies. We planned to include studies that compared psychological therapy versus any other type of psychological therapy, placebo, light therapy, SGAs, melatonin, agomelatine or lifestyle changes. We also intended to compare psychological therapy in combination with any of the comparator interventions listed above versus the same comparator intervention as monotherapy. Two review authors screened abstracts and full-text publications against the inclusion criteria. Two review authors planned to independently extract data and assess risk of bias. We planned to pool data for meta-analysis when participant groups were similar and when studies assessed the same treatments versus the same comparator and provided similar definitions of outcome measures over a similar duration of treatment; however, we included no studies. We identified 2986 citations through electronic searches and reviews of reference lists after de-duplication of search results. We excluded 2895 records during title and abstract review and assessed 91 articles at full-text review for eligibility. We found no controlled studies on use of psychological therapy to prevent SAD and improve patient-centred outcomes in adults with a history of SAD. Presently, there is no methodologically sound evidence available to indicate whether psychological therapy is or is not an effective intervention for prevention of SAD and improvement of patient-centred outcomes among adults with a history of SAD. Randomised controlled trials are needed to compare different types of psychological therapies and to compare psychological therapies versus placebo, light therapy, SGAs, melatonin, agomelatine or lifestyle changes for prevention of new depressive episodes in patients with a history of winter-type SAD.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 118 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 19%
Researcher 17 14%
Student > Bachelor 15 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Other 17 14%
Unknown 26 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 28 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 27 23%
Social Sciences 6 5%
Neuroscience 4 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 3%
Other 20 17%
Unknown 30 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 November 2019.
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#1,089,950
of 25,461,852 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#2,203
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Outputs of similar age
#15,996
of 293,553 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#66
of 296 outputs
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