Table 4.
Treatment approaches used for ‘moderate/severe’ depression.
| Prescription for antidepressants | Never (1) | Some times (2) |
About half the time (3) | Most of the time (4) | Always (5) | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prescription for antidepressants | 0% | 9% | 21% | 62% | 8% | 3.68 |
| Recommend self-referral to IAPT | 13% | 16% | 11% | 30% | 30% | 3.49 |
| Social prescribing (exercise, nutrition, social activity, self-help books etc.) | 6% | 21% | 19% | 29% | 25% | 3.46 |
| Refer to counsellor/psychotherapist/psychologist | 5% | 29% | 19% | 31% | 16% | 3.24 |
| Refer to mental health services | 7% | 52% | 21% | 15% | 5% | 2.59 |
| Provide psychological intervention yourself | 37% | 33% | 8% | 13% | 9% | 2.25 |
| Refer to computerised CBT (e.g. ‘Beating the Blues’) | 37% | 40% | 11% | 6% | 6% | 2.06 |
| Refer to psychiatrist | 18% | 63% | 14% | 5% | 0% | 2.06 |
| Active monitoring/watchful waiting) | 33% | 54% | 5% | 5% | 3% | 1.90 |
| Refer to in-house mental health staff | 63% | 14% | 14% | 6% | 2% | 1.69 |
CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy; IAPT, Improving Access to Psychological Treatments.