Table 3.
Treatment approaches used for ‘minimal/mild’ depression.
| Prescription for antidepressants | Never (1) | Some times (2) |
About half the time (3) |
Most of the time (4) | Always (5) | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommend self-referral to IAPT | 6% | 14% | 19% | 38% | 22% | 3.56 |
| Social prescribing (exercise, nutrition, social activity, self-help books etc.) | 3% | 21% | 17% | 46% | 13% | 3.44 |
| Active monitoring/watchful waiting | 2% | 25% | 25% | 41% | 6% | 3.25 |
| Refer to counsellor/psychotherapist/psychologist | 6% | 41% | 22% | 22% | 8% | 2.84 |
| Refer to computerised CBT (e.g. ‘Beating the Blues’) | 25% | 44% | 13% | 14% | 3% | 2.25 |
| Provide psychological intervention yourself | 30% | 43% | 8% | 14% | 5% | 2.21 |
| Prescription for antidepressants | 14% | 71% | 13% | 2% | 0% | 2.02 |
| Refer to mental health services | 44% | 38% | 13% | 2% | 3% | 1.81 |
| Refer to in-house mental health staff | 63% | 24% | 8% | 3% | 2% | 1.56 |
| Refer to psychiatrist | 76% | 19% | 3% | 0% | 2% | 1.32 |
CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy; IAPT, Improving Access to Psychological Treatments.