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Improving Employment Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Case Series of Patients With Treatment-Refractory Depression

Patients with treatment-refractory depression (TRD) have significantly great losses in work productivity and employment. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is considered an approach for the treatment of TRD. However, the effectiveness of IPT in patients with TRD remains unclear. In this study, we rep...

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Autores principales: Katagiri, Takeshi, Takaesu, Yoshikazu, Kurihara, Mariko, Oe, Yuki, Ishii, Miho, Onoda, Naoko, Hayasaka, Tomonari, Kanda, Yuta, Imamura, Yayoi, Watanabe, Koichiro
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8102742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33967847
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.617305
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author Katagiri, Takeshi
Takaesu, Yoshikazu
Kurihara, Mariko
Oe, Yuki
Ishii, Miho
Onoda, Naoko
Hayasaka, Tomonari
Kanda, Yuta
Imamura, Yayoi
Watanabe, Koichiro
author_facet Katagiri, Takeshi
Takaesu, Yoshikazu
Kurihara, Mariko
Oe, Yuki
Ishii, Miho
Onoda, Naoko
Hayasaka, Tomonari
Kanda, Yuta
Imamura, Yayoi
Watanabe, Koichiro
author_sort Katagiri, Takeshi
collection PubMed
description Patients with treatment-refractory depression (TRD) have significantly great losses in work productivity and employment. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is considered an approach for the treatment of TRD. However, the effectiveness of IPT in patients with TRD remains unclear. In this study, we report cases of TRD patients who underwent IPT after a detailed evaluation, along with their employment status. Of 112 patients who experienced 1-week examination administration for TRD at Kyorin University Hospital, which aimed to determine appropriate diagnosis and treatment approaches for each patient, four patients who met the criteria for major depressive disorder according to DSM-IV-TR and were determined suitable for IPT were included in this report. Two patients had moderate, one had mild, and one had remission levels of depressive symptoms according to the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale at the time of admission. All four patients completed the scheduled sessions of IPT (6–16 sessions) in the outpatient clinic and achieved remission. All four patients attained full-time employment within 6 months after receiving IPT. This study suggests that the appropriate selection of IPT might be effective for TRD patients, possibly leading to positive outcomes, including work productivity and employment status.
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spelling pubmed-81027422021-05-08 Improving Employment Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Case Series of Patients With Treatment-Refractory Depression Katagiri, Takeshi Takaesu, Yoshikazu Kurihara, Mariko Oe, Yuki Ishii, Miho Onoda, Naoko Hayasaka, Tomonari Kanda, Yuta Imamura, Yayoi Watanabe, Koichiro Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Patients with treatment-refractory depression (TRD) have significantly great losses in work productivity and employment. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is considered an approach for the treatment of TRD. However, the effectiveness of IPT in patients with TRD remains unclear. In this study, we report cases of TRD patients who underwent IPT after a detailed evaluation, along with their employment status. Of 112 patients who experienced 1-week examination administration for TRD at Kyorin University Hospital, which aimed to determine appropriate diagnosis and treatment approaches for each patient, four patients who met the criteria for major depressive disorder according to DSM-IV-TR and were determined suitable for IPT were included in this report. Two patients had moderate, one had mild, and one had remission levels of depressive symptoms according to the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale at the time of admission. All four patients completed the scheduled sessions of IPT (6–16 sessions) in the outpatient clinic and achieved remission. All four patients attained full-time employment within 6 months after receiving IPT. This study suggests that the appropriate selection of IPT might be effective for TRD patients, possibly leading to positive outcomes, including work productivity and employment status. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8102742/ /pubmed/33967847 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.617305 Text en Copyright © 2021 Katagiri, Takaesu, Kurihara, Oe, Ishii, Onoda, Hayasaka, Kanda, Imamura and Watanabe. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychiatry
Katagiri, Takeshi
Takaesu, Yoshikazu
Kurihara, Mariko
Oe, Yuki
Ishii, Miho
Onoda, Naoko
Hayasaka, Tomonari
Kanda, Yuta
Imamura, Yayoi
Watanabe, Koichiro
Improving Employment Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Case Series of Patients With Treatment-Refractory Depression
title Improving Employment Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Case Series of Patients With Treatment-Refractory Depression
title_full Improving Employment Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Case Series of Patients With Treatment-Refractory Depression
title_fullStr Improving Employment Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Case Series of Patients With Treatment-Refractory Depression
title_full_unstemmed Improving Employment Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Case Series of Patients With Treatment-Refractory Depression
title_short Improving Employment Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Case Series of Patients With Treatment-Refractory Depression
title_sort improving employment through interpersonal psychotherapy: a case series of patients with treatment-refractory depression
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8102742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33967847
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.617305
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