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. 2018;87(2):121-123.
doi: 10.1159/000486793. Epub 2018 Mar 1.

Symptom-Specific Effects of Psychotherapy versus Combined Therapy in the Treatment of Mild to Moderate Depression: A Network Approach

Ella Bekhuis  1 , Robert Schoevers  1 , Marrit de Boer  1 , Jaap Peen  2 , Jack Dekker  2 , Henricus Van  2 , Lynn Boschloo  1
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Symptom-Specific Effects of Psychotherapy versus Combined Therapy in the Treatment of Mild to Moderate Depression: A Network Approach

Ella Bekhuis et al. Psychother Psychosom. 2018.
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Fig. 1.
Symptom-specific effects of psychotherapy versus combined therapy. The type of treatment is represented by the square and depressive symptoms by circles. Relative effect sizes of psychotherapy versus combined therapy on specific symptoms (all in favor of combined therapy) are indicated by the size of circles and their level of significance by circle color (violet is significant and white is nonsignificant; colors online version only). Connections in the network model are represented by lines, of which the thickness is proportional to the strength of associations. Direct associations between the type of treatment and change scores of symptoms are all in favor of combined therapy (indicated by violet lines) and associations between change scores of symptoms are all positive (indicated by green lines).
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