Healio (3/14, Herpen) reports, “Independent of treatment, socioeconomic factors such as employment are closely associated with prognosis for adults with depression, according to” a study. Investigators “sought to determine if socioeconomic issues like employment status, financial strain, housing status and education have an impact on the prognosis for adults with depression, independent of treatment and after accounting for clinical prognostic factors.” The analysis “pulled data from The Embase, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Cochrane (CENTRAL) databases from inception of each through Oct. 8, 2021.” The findings were published in JAMA Psychiatry.
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— “Socioeconomic factors associated with prognosis in adults with depression “Robert Herpen, Healio, March 14, 2022