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ALT Do Research Practice Partnerships offer a promising approach to producing knowledge that improves social care practice and outcomes? Annette Boaz, Bev Fitzsimons, Becki Meakin, Stuart Muirhead, Claire Williams, Melanie Weatherley, Martin Knapp, Lisa Smith, Joe Langley, Hannah Kendrick and Annette Bauer

ALT In order to improve the prognosis of people with ‘treatment resistant depression’, it is important to consider alternative pathways and augmentations to currently available treatments. For instance, a previous randomised controlled trial (RCT), the Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS; Fonagy et al., 2015) found that treatment-as-usual (TAU) combined with long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy (LTPP) was better than TAU alone in improving the long-term outcomes and reducing the risk of relapse. A previous blog on the original TADS study upon its publication, pointed out that a cost-effectiveness analysis could have been helpful to include to deliver a more realistic picture of the decision-making in psychological healthcare (McDonald, 2016). Koeser et al. (2023) have now released a new peer-reviewed paper utilising the TADS RCT data to compare the cost-effectiveness of LTPP and TAU together versus TAU alone.





























