GONG Benhong,SHI Sumi,CHEN Guangqiang, et al. The effectiveness of integrated intervention with psychotherapy and drug therapy for senile depression[J]. JOURNAL OF WEZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, 2019, 49(5): 371-373.
Abstract：Objective: To explore the effectiveness of integrated psychotherapy for senile depressive disorder so as to promote rapid recovery of social function and cure rate of the elderly patients with depression. Methods: There were 365 senile depressive disorder patients who were screened by using the old age Depression Scale, of whom 120 cases who met the diagnostic criteria of ICD-10 depression were pre-identified and randomly grouped in the form of voluntary group. Integrated psychotherapy plus drug therapy (experimental group) and simple antidepressant treatment (control group) were carried out. HAMD and GWB were used to assess the status, with statistical analysis by spss19.0. Results: After the 2-week treatment in the experimental group and the control group, there was significant difference in HAMD score reduction rate between the two groups. In the 2nd week after integrated psychotherapy was added to the experimental group, there was obvious difference in subtraction, compared with the control group. After 12 weeks of treatment with comprehensive intervention in both groups, the overall happiness index was significantly different from that before treatment (P<0.01) in the experimental group, but not in the control group. Conclusion: Integrated psychotherapy and comprehensive intervention of drugs are more effective in the treatment of senile depressive disorder.
