Posted by cecilia on July 15, 2006, at 1:45:08
In reply to Re: couldn't have said it better myself, posted by linkadge on July 15, 2006, at 0:41:57
I think a study needs to be done on who participates in studies and why. The Star-D was supposed to be more like real world practice, because the participants had more choices in treatment options than in most studies, but since all the drugs used were ones already on the market, not experimental ones otherwise unavailable, I don't see what the participants got out of it other than free meds. If that was there primary reason for participation, than it's certainly not a random sample of depressed people, it's a sample of depressed low income people without insurance. In other words, people with plenty of reasons to be depressed that aren't fixable by meds. Cecilia
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