Antidepressant treatment of caregivers of children with asthma

E. Sherwood Brown; Vanthaya Gan; Jala Jeffress; Beatrice L. Wood; Bruce D. Miller; David A. Khan

doi:10.1176/appi.psy.49.5.420

Antidepressant treatment of caregivers of children with asthma

E. Sherwood Brown, Vanthaya Gan, Jala Jeffress, Beatrice L. Wood, Bruce D. Miller, David A. Khan

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Background: Depression is common in caregivers of children with asthma and is associated with increased emergency service utilization for the child's asthma. Objective: This pilot study examined the impact of antidepressant treatment of depressed caregivers on the caregiver's depression and the child's asthma. Method: Eight depressed caregivers of children with asthma were given up to 6 months of algorithm-based antidepressant therapy. Results: Caregiver depressive symptoms and the child's asthma symptoms improved significantly. Conclusion: Unscheduled clinic visits showed a trend toward significant decrease. Larger trials are needed to confirm these findings and identify mechanisms linking improvement in caregiver depression with improvement in their child's asthma. (Psychosomatics 2008; 49:420-425)

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	420-425
Number of pages	6
Journal	Psychosomatics
Volume	49
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psy.49.5.420
State	Published - 2008

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Applied Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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