Healio (6/12, Demko) reports that “long-term benefits of psychotherapeutic and combined treatments were superior to pharmacological treatments for PTSD across six randomized clinical trials with follow-up data.” The findings of the “network meta-analysis” were published online June 12 in JAMA Psychiatry. According to Healio, “future research needs to address clinically meaningful questions, like what clinicians can do when the first treatment fails, not just the question of whether psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy is better…wrote” the authors of an accompanying editorial.
Related Links:
— “Psychotherapeutic, combined treatments superior to pharmacological treatment in PTSD, “Savannah Demko, Healio, June 12, 2019