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Is there an excess of significant findings in published studies of psychotherapy for depression?
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BACKGROUND: Many studies have examined the efficacy of psychotherapy for major depressive disorder (MDD) but publication bias against null results may exist in this literature. However, to date, the presence of an excess of significant findings in this literature has not been explicitly tested. METHOD: We used a database of 1344 articles on the psychological treatment of depression, identified through systematic search in PubMed, PsycINFO, EMBASE and the Cochrane database of randomized trials...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1017/s0033291714001421
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British Heart Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Psychological Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 439-446
- Publication date:
- 2015-01-01
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1469-8978
- ISSN:
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0033-2917
- Source identifiers:
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477449
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- English
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pubs:477449
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uuid:555f8488-1070-4da8-8716-7581c3e35b16
- Local pid:
- pubs:477449
- Deposit date:
- 2014-08-06
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- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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