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Psychotherapies for depression in low- and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis
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Most psychotherapies for depression have been developed in high‐income Western countries of North America, Europe and Australia. A growing number of randomized trials have examined the effects of these treatments in non‐Western countries. We conducted a meta‐analysis of these studies to examine whether these psychotherapies are effective and to compare their effects between studies from Western and non‐Western countries. We conducted systematic searches in bibliographical databases and included 253 randomized controlled trials, of which 32 were conducted in non‐Western countries. The effects of psychotherapies in non‐Western countries were large (g=1.10; 95% CI: 0.91‐1.30), with high heterogeneity (I 2=90; 95% CI: 87‐92). After adjustment for publication bias, the effect size dropped to g=0.73 (95% CI: 0.51‐0.96). Subgroup analyses did not indicate that adaptation to the local situation was associated with the effect size. Comparisons with the studies in Western countries showed that the effects of the therapies were significantly larger in non‐Western countries, also after adjusting for characteristics of the participants, the treatments and the studies. These larger effect sizes in non‐Western countries may reflect true differences indicating that therapies are indeed more effective; or may be explained by the care‐as‐usual control conditions in non‐Western countries, often indicating that no care was available; or may be the result of the relative low quality of many trials in the field. This study suggests that psychotherapies that were developed in Western countries may or may not be more effective in non‐Western countries, but they are probably no less effective and can therefore also be used in these latter countries.
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“with high heterogeneity (I 2 590; 95% CI: 87-92).”
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“Heterogeneity was very high (I 2 590; 95% CI: 87-92).”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > Abstract
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“We found that the eight studies in high-income, non-Western countries resulted in an effect size of g50.86 (95% CI: 0.48-1.23;NNT53.30;I 2 571; 95% CI: 24-84) compared to g50.59 in Western countries (Table 2).”
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“We also found that the type of control group was significantly associated with the effect size, with care-as-usual control groups resulting in higher effect sizes than waiting list and other control groups (p50.02).”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > BDI -Beck Depression Inventory, HAM-D -Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, NNT -numbers-needed-to-be-treated, CBT -cognitive behavior therapy
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“the number of treatment sessions (coefficient: 0.00; 95% CI: 20.04 to 0.04; p51.00)”
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“A direct comparison between high-income countries in Western and non-Western countries did not indicate a significant difference (p50.17),but this may have been related to the small number of studies from high-income non-Western countries.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > Comparison between the effects of psychotherapy in Western vs. non-Western countries
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“we found no indication that the effect size was significantly associated with the GNI (coefficient: 0.00; 95% CI: 20.00 to 0.00; p50.56)”
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“Egger's test also pointed at significant asymmetry of the funnel plot (p50.004;intercept: 2.42; 95% CI: 0.65-4.20).”
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“The pooled effect size after excluding these extreme outliers was g50.87 (95% CI: 0.73-1.06;I 2 578; 95% CI: 69-83).”
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“Whether the study was conducted in a Western or non-Western country remained a significant predictor of the effect size after adjusting for all other characteristics of the participants, interventions and studies (p<0.001).”
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“Another 221 studies (with 297 comparisons between a treatment and a control group) on psychotherapies in Western countries were included (for the comparison of effect sizes in Western versus non-Western countries).”
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“We also found a significant difference across countries with different incomes, with the highest effect sizes in low-and middle-income countries.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > Comparison between the effects of psychotherapy in Western vs. non-Western countries
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“The effects of psychotherapies in non-Western countries were large (g51.10;95% CI: 0.91-1.30),with high heterogeneity (I 2 590; 95% CI: 87-92).”
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“The overall effect in the 35 comparisons between psychotherapies and control groups was g51.10 (95% CI: 0.91-1.30),which corresponds with a NNT of 2.51.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > Abstract
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“A total of 32 studies conducted in non-Western countries (with 35 comparisons between a psychotherapy and a control condition) met inclusion criteria for this meta-analysis (Table 1).”
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“As can be seen from Table 2, the resulting effect sizes were almost the same as in the overall analyses.Heterogeneity was still very high in these analyses.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > BDI -Beck Depression Inventory, HAM-D -Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, NNT -numbers-needed-to-be-treated, CBT -cognitive behavior therapy
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“We found that the effect size in Western countries (g5 0.60; 95% CI: 0.55-0.64;I 2 559; 95% CI: 53-64; NNT54.99) was significantly lower than in non-Western countries (p<0.001).”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > Comparison between the effects of psychotherapy in Western vs. non-Western countries
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“As can be seen, in all three models, risk of bias and type of control group remained significant, as well as the dummies indicating Western vs. non-Western countries, the regions and the income level.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > Comparison between the effects of psychotherapy in Western vs. non-Western countries
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“We conducted systematic searches in bibliographical databases and included 253 randomized controlled trials, of which 32 were conducted in non-Western countries.”
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“This makes a total of 253 studies that were included in the analyses.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > Abstract
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“None of the other subgroup analyses resulted in significant differences between subgroups, and that included the region (East Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, other), the level of income of the country (high, upper middle, low/ lower middle), and whether or not the treatment was adapted to the local situation.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > BDI -Beck Depression Inventory, HAM-D -Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, NNT -numbers-needed-to-be-treated, CBT -cognitive behavior therapy
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“The six comparisons with the lowest risk of bias (no risk of bias for any of the four items of the assessment tool) had an effect size of g50.51 (95% CI: 0.34-0.69;NNT56.01)compared to g51.20 (95% CI: 0.84-1.56;NNT52.29) in the studies with the highest risk of bias.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > BDI -Beck Depression Inventory, HAM-D -Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, NNT -numbers-needed-to-be-treated, CBT -cognitive behavior therapy
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“We also examined the effect sizes in the different regions and found that they differed significant across regions (p<0.001), with the lowest effect sizes in North America, Europe and Australia, and the highest in East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > Comparison between the effects of psychotherapy in Western vs. non-Western countries
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“these studies with low risk of bias had considerably lower effect sizes than those with higher risk, very comparable to the ones found in Western countries.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > DISCUSSION
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“We conducted systematic searches in bibliographical databases and included 253 randomized controlled trials, of which 32 were conducted in non-Western countries.”
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“For this database we searched four major bibliographical sources (PubMed, Psyc-INFO, Embase and the Cochrane Library) by combining terms (both index terms and text words) indicative of depression and psychotherapies, with filters for randomized controlled trials.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > Abstract
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“Assessment of the quality of the included studies was conducted by two independent researchers, and disagreements were solved through discussion.”
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“Because we expected considerable heterogeneity among the studies, we employed a random effects pooling model in all analyses.”
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“All records were screened by two independent researchers and all papers that could possibly meet inclusion criteria according to one of the researchers were retrieved as full text.The decision to include or exclude a study was also done by the two independent researchers, and disagreements were solved through discussion.”
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“We tested for publication bias by inspecting the funnel plot on primary outcome measures and by Duval and Tweedie's trim and fill procedure 34 , which yields an estimate of the effect size after the publication bias has been taken into account (as implemented in Comprehensive Meta-Analysis).We also conducted Egger's test of the intercept to quantify the bias captured by the funnel plot and to test”
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“We conducted sensitivity analyses excluding potential outliers.These were defined as studies in which the 95% CI of the effect size did not overlap with the 95% CI of the pooled effect size.”
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“This study suggests that psychotherapies that were developed in Western countries may or may not be more effective in non-Western countries, but they are probably no less effective and can therefore also be used in these latter countries.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > Abstract
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- Rests on an assumption: The 32 included non-Western trials are representative of psychotherapies for depression in non-Western countries generally.
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“In this meta-analysis, we included three studies in which two psychological treatments were compared with the same control group.This means that multiple comparisons were included in the same analysis, which may have resulted in an artificial reduction of heterogeneity and may have affected the pooled effect size.”
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“the quality of most of the included studies was not optimal, and only a handful of them had a high quality.”
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“our searches mainly focused on Western databases, while studies published in other languages were not directly accessible.”
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“because the description of the intervention was very brief in most papers, so that it cannot be excluded that the interventions were still adapted although this was not mentioned in the paper.”
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“this study suggests that psychotherapies developed in Western countries may or not be more effective in non-Western countries, but are probably no less effective and can therefore also be used in these latter countries, regardless of their income level.”
§ Psychotherapies for depression in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis > DISCUSSION
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“most studies in non-Western countries were conducted in a selected sample of countries in Asia, and only few in Africa and Latin America.”
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“it would be possible to introduce low intensity interventions as a first line treatment”
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- Rests on an assumption: Low-intensity interventions are simpler and less costly to deliver than high-intensity ones.
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Most psychotherapies for depression were developed in high-income Western countries.
“Most psychotherapies have been developed in high-income Western countries in North America, Europe and Australia, and the vast majority of the more than 450 randomized trials which have examined their effects 20 have been conducted in those countries.”
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The 32 included non-Western trials are representative of psychotherapies for depression in non-Western countries generally.
“This study suggests that psychotherapies that were developed in Western countries may or may not be more effective in non-Western countries, but they are probably no less effective and can therefore also be used in these latter countries.”
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Low-intensity interventions are simpler and less costly to deliver than high-intensity ones.
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“Accumulating evidence from 30 trials also supports efficacy of mindfulness-based CBT, preventive CBT, and IPT in relapse prevention. 553”
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“A recent meta-analysis of depression treatments in low- and middle-income countries has been conducted with 32 RCTs, looking at different intervention types, formats (eg, guided self-help, group therapy), and comparators (eg, waitlist, treatment as usual) [25]. An effect size of 0.73 (Hedges g) was found for symptoms of depression.”
From Evaluating the Effectiveness of an E-Mental Health Intervention for People Living in Lebanon: Protocol for Two Randomized Controlled Trials (2021) · cites this paper as [25]
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“The pooled effect size after excluding these extreme outliers was g50.87 (95% CI: 0.73-1.06;I 2 578; 95% CI: 69-83).”
“| | Non-Western | 32 | 0.87 | 0.73-1.02 | 78 | 69-83 | | 3.26 |”
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“In children, psychosocial interventions were supported by at least suggestive evidence in conduct disorders and for PTSD ; 35,37 however, on the basis of umbrella review and GRADE criteria, none of these effect sizes reached the maximum of the ratings in terms of strength of association and…”
Self-citationThe effects of fifteen evidence-supported therapies for adult depression: A meta-analytic review
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“…have been consistently found to be significant predictors of the effects of therapies: type of control condition (Mohr et al., 2014), risk of bias (Cuijpers, van Straten, Bohlmeijer, Hollon, &Andersson, 2010), and whether or not the study was conducted in a Western country (Cuijpers et al., 2018).”
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Cultural Adaptation of Scalable Psychological Interventions: A New Conceptual Framework
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“…et al., 2016), providing open-access, self-managed care as a valuable treatment strategy where healthcare systems lack the infrastructure to provide mental health services at scale, a common barrier in low-and middle-income countries (Cuijpers, Karyotaki, Reijnders, Purgato, & Barbui, 2018).”
Self-citationCuijpers, P., Pineda, B. S., Quero, S., Karyotaki, E., Struijs, S. Y., Figueroa, C. A., Llamas, J. A., Furukawa, T. A., & Muñoz, R. F. (2021) · Clinical Psychology Review · doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101955 · Cited by 148
Self-citationPsychological treatment of depression: A systematic overview of a 'Meta-Analytic Research Domain'
Cuijpers, P., Miguel, C., Harrer, M., Plessen, C. Y., Ciharova, M., Papola, D., Ebert, D., & Karyotaki, E. (2023) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2023.05.011 · Cited by 136
Self-citationProblem-solving therapy for adult depression: An updated meta-analysis
Cuijpers, P., de Wit, L., Kleiboer, A., Karyotaki, E., & Ebert, D. D. (2018) · European Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.11.006 · Cited by 134
“We also searched a number of bibliographical databases to identify trials in non-Western countries [30], because the number of trials on psychological treatments in these countries is growing rapidly.”
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Who benefits from psychotherapies for adult depression? A meta-analytic update of the evidence
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Self-citationCuijpers, P., Heim, E., Abi Ramia, J., Burchert, S., Carswell, K., Cornelisz, I., Knaevelsrud, C., Noun, P., van Klaveren, C., van’t Hof, E., et al. (2022) · PLoS Medicine · doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1004025 · Cited by 118
“Assuming 70% dropout [31,32], we planned to recruit 568 participants to show that the intervention was effective.”
BackgroundSelf-citationNegative effects of psychotherapies for adult depression: A meta-analysis of deterioration rates
Cuijpers, P., Reijnders, M., Karyotaki, E., de Wit, L., & Ebert, D. D. (2018) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2018.05.050 · Cited by 105
“We also searched a number of bibliographical databases to identify trials in non-Western countries (Cuijpers et al., 2018), because the number of trials on psychological treatments in these countries is growing rapidly.”
BackgroundMethodSelf-citationPsychological treatment of perinatal depression: a meta-analysis
Cuijpers, P., Franco, P., Ciharova, M., Miguel, C., Segre, L., Quero, S., & Karyotaki, E. (2023) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291721004529 · Cited by 103
“Numbers needed-to-be-treated (NNT) for depression outcomes were calculated using the formulae provided by Furukawa (1999). The NNT is the inverse of the risk difference between the treatment and control group (Laupacis, Sackett, & Roberts, 1988), based on a binary outcome.”
MethodSelf-citationCuijpers, P., Pineda, B. S., Ng, M. Y., Weisz, J. R., Muñoz, R. F., Gentili, C., Quero, S., & Karyotaki, E. (2021) · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2020.11.024 · Cited by 102
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“LMICs around the world have scarce access to mental health services [26].”
InfluentialScaling up mental health care and psychosocial support in low-resource settings: a roadmap to impact
Jordans, M. J. D., & Kohrt, B. A. (2020) · Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences · doi:10.1017/s2045796020001018 · Cited by 87
“, 2014), though this association is not undisputed (Cuijpers et al., 2018).”
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“On the other hand, in a recent meta-analysis of studies testing psychological interventions for the treatment of depression in low- and middle-income countries, cultural adaption did not affect effect sizes (Cuijpers et al. 2018).”
BackgroundAsrat, B., Schneider, M., Ambaw, F., & Lund, C. (2020) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.068 · Cited by 66
Guided digital health intervention for depression in Lebanon: randomised trial
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“That is in line with a previous meta-analysis comparing the effect sizes of psychotherapy for depression in Western and non-Western countries (Cuijpers et al., 2018).”
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Self-citationEMPOWER: Toward the Global Dissemination of Psychosocial Interventions
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“Such differences have been previously identified in the literature on psychotherapy trials (Cuijpers et al., 2018) and raise important considerations.”
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“As depression is common and potentially modifiable in low and middle-income countries (42), it represents a promising prevention target.”
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Online psychotherapy: trailblazing digital healthcare
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Self-citationWill increasing access to mental health treatment close India's mental health gap?
Weaver, L. J., Karasz, A., Muralidhar, K., Jaykrishna, P., Krupp, K., & Madhivanan, P. (2022) · SSM - Mental Health · doi:10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100184 · Cited by 25
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Self-citationRecent approaches to provision of mental healthcare in refugee populations
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“With increasing evidence for effectiveness of psychological interventions implemented by nonspecialists (Singla et al., 2017; Cuijpers et al., 2018; Barbui et al., 2020), there is a need to demonstrate how task-shifted evidence-based treatments can be scaled-up to reduce the gap between need and availability of mental…”
BackgroundPsychological treatment of depression in institutional settings: A meta-analytic review
Cuijpers, P. J., Čihařová, M., Miguel, C., Harrer, M., Ebert, D. D., Brakemeier, E.-L., & Karyotaki, E. (2021) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2021.03.017 · Cited by 24
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Self-citationKim, E. T., Opiyo, T., Acayo, P. S., Lillie, M., Gallis, J. A., Zhou, Y., Ochieng, M., Okuro, S., Hembling, J., McEwan, E., et al. (2021) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2021.06.002 · Cited by 24
“…picture-based iMBC program was steeped in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and the literature regarding the efficacy of CBT for a range of specific mental and behavioral problems is strong, although largely based on studies in high-income countries (Hofmann et al., 2012; Cuijpers et al., 2018).”
MethodIntegrating depression care within NCD provision in Bangladesh and Pakistan: a qualitative study
Wright, J., Mazumdar, P., Barua, D., Lina, S., Bibi, H., Kanwal, A., Aslam, F., Naz, Q., Safi, R., Haq, B. U., et al. (2020) · International Journal of Mental Health Systems · doi:10.1186/s13033-020-00399-y · Cited by 19
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“A recent systematic review of psychotherapies for depression in LMICs identified only three GSH studies (Cuijpers et al., 2018) including our multicentre randomized controlled trial (RCT) of culturally adapted guided self-help from Pakistan (Naeem et al., 2014).”
BackgroundLund, C., Orkin, K., Witte, M., Walker, J., Davies, T., Haushofer, J., Murray, S. M., Bass, J., Murray, L. K., Tol, W. A., et al. (2024) · National Bureau of Economic Research · doi:10.3386/w32423 · Cited by 19
Balci, S., Küchler, A., Ebert, D. D., & Baumeister, H. (2023) · Clinical Psychology in Europe · doi:10.32872/cpe.9341 · Cited by 24
“This might bring out the idea that some intervention contents might not significantly benefit from an elaborate adaptation process, especially for low threshold interventions (Böttche et al., 2021; Cuijpers et al., 2018; Spanhel, Burdach, et al., 2021).”
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Lucien, A., Francis, H., Wu, W., Woldhuis, T., & Gandy, M. (2024) · Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.msard.2024.105858 · Cited by 24
van 't Hof, E., Heim, E., Abi Ramia, J., Burchert, S., Cornelisz, I., Cuijpers, P., El Chammay, R., Harper Shehadeh, M., Noun, P., Smit, F., et al. (2021) · JMIR Research Protocols · doi:10.2196/21585 · Cited by 16
“A recent meta-analysis of depression treatments in low-and middle-income countries has been conducted with 32 RCTs, looking at different intervention types, formats (eg, guided self-help, group therapy), and comparators (eg, waitlist, treatment as usual) [25].”
BackgroundSelf-citationKarasz, A., Anne, S., Hamadani, J. D., & Tofail, F. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph18010279 · Cited by 17
“A recent meta-analysis found that task sharing interventions generally outperform no-treatment/treatment-as-usual controls [26], although recent large-scale studies in South Asia have shown disappointing results [27,28].”
ResultChan, S. H., & Shorey, S. (2023) · Journal of Pediatric Nursing · doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2023.10.028 · Cited by 19
Psychotherapy for comorbid depression and somatic disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Miguel, C., Karyotaki, E., Čihařová, M., Cristea, I. A., Penninx, B. W. J. H., & Cuijpers, P. J. (2021) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291721004414 · Cited by 24
“These differences have been previously observed in psychotherapy research (Cuijpers, Karyotaki, Reijnders, Purgato, & Barbui, 2018), and it could be explained by considerable differences in usual care control conditions across countries (Cuijpers, Quero, Papola, Cristea, & Karyotaki, 2019).”
Self-citationAyudhaya, W. S. N., Pityaratstian, N., & Jiamjarasrangsi, W. (2020) · Clinical Interventions in Aging · doi:10.2147/cia.s274262 · Cited by 11
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“and exporting them to LMIC settings poses multiple challenges (Benish et al., 2011; Hall et al., 2016; Cuijpers et al., 2018).”
BackgroundOlisaeloka, L., Udokanma, E. E., & Ashraf, A. (2024) · International Journal of Mental Health Systems · doi:10.1186/s13033-024-00642-w · Cited by 20
“In their review, Cuijpers et al . did not find any indication that a specific contextual adaptation was associated with better outcomes [47].”
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Aldridge, L. R., Luitel, N. P., Jordans, M. J. D., Bass, J., & Patenaude, B. (2022) · Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health · doi:10.1017/gmh.2022.54 · Cited by 11
“In the absence of valid, sensitive quality of life measures appropriate for LMIC, deriving QALYs from WHODAS provides an opportunity to strengthen and standardize methodological approaches to economic evaluation within global mental health.”
ResultInfluentialBöhm, B., Keane, G., Karimet, M., & Palma, M. (2022) · Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health · doi:10.1017/gmh.2022.53 · Cited by 8
Tong, L., Miguel, C., Panagiotopoulou, O.-M., Karyotaki, E., & Cuijpers, P. J. (2023) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291723002246 · Cited by 10
“We considered the intervention was adapted if (1) the authors explicitly stated that the study used adaptions or (2) the intended interventions were developed based on local conditions, models, or theories in non-Western countries (Cuijpers et al., 2018).”
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“Depression treatment rates are very low in low-and middle-income countries [5].”
BackgroundPreliminary results of adapting the stepped care model for depression management in Vietnam
Do, M. T., Nguyen, T. T., & Tran, H. T. T. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.922911 · Cited by 10
Psychotherapy over the Last Four Decades
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“While cultural adaptation of psychological interventions was not associated with efficacy in a meta-analysis of LMIC studies, descriptions were often extremely brief (Cuijpers et al., 2018).”
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Cultural adaptations of digital therapeutics
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“…would be powered to detect a standardized mean difference of medium size ( d ≥ 0.50) between the conditions, as statistically significant at α≤ .05 (2-tailed) and a power of (1 – β ) ≥ 0.90 while accounting for an expected dropout rate of 70%, which is typical for self-help interventions [23].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cuijpers, P., Karyotaki, E., Reijnders, M., Purgato, M., & Barbui, C.
- Affiliations
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- University of Verona (IT)
- Venue
- World Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018-01-19
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 90-101
- ISSN
- 1723-8617 (ISSN-L)
- 2051-5545
- PMC
- PMC5775122
- OpenAlex
- W2724934802
- Cited by
- 159
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 8
- FWCI
- 19.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- World Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- depression, psychotherapy, low- and middle-income countries, cross-cultural generalizability, treatment effectiveness, publication bias, trial quality
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