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Table 2 Percent of doctors recommending a specific treatment according to case description. Several recommendations were possible

From: Swiss GPs’ preferences for antidepressant treatment in mild depression: vignette-based quantitative analysis

Recommendation

Vignette

   
 

Mild depression

Mild depression with anxiety symptoms

Mild depression with sleep problems

Mild depression with anxiety symptoms and sleep problems

 

Mean (95%-CI)

Mean (95%-CI)

Mean (95%-CI)

Mean (95%-CI)

 Watchful waiting

76% (69%—82%)

47 (39%—54%)

42% (35%—50%)

36% (29%—43%)

 Antidepressant

11% (7%—17%)

29% (23%—36%)

47% (40%—55%)

63% (56%—70%)

 Psychotherapy

40% (33%—47%)

72% (65%—79%)

46% (38%—53%)

75% (68%—81%)

 Phytotherapy (e.g. St John’s wort)

31% (25%—39%)

25% (19%—32%)

29% (22%—36%)

20% (14%—26%)

 Sedative-hypnotic drug (e.g. benzodiazepine)

0%a

1%a

7%a

10%a

  1. aConfidence interval could not be estimated because the GEE model did not converge