Healthcare professionals are often too busy to catch up with the mass of research which is published each day. Annual Evidence Updates provide a quick and easy way for mental health professionals, primary care staff, students and others to find out how the latest evidence on a particular topic affects their practice. The Depression AEU highlights the best evidence published in the last 20 months.

This evidence complements the 2004 NICE guideline on depression, which is due to be updated next year.

We have found guidelines, evidence summaries, systematic reviews and meta-analyses and grouped them into 4 sections:

1. Prevalence and incidence
2. Diagnosis
3. Treatment (pharmacological; psychosocial; complementary and alternative; other)
4. Populations (children and adolescents; older people; women; men; work place; other populations).

Meanwhile, leading experts in the field were interviewed for a podcast to complement the reference lists, the first of its kind to be created for a National Library for Health specialist library. The podcast is available to download as part of the Annual Evidence Update. We are looking forward to hearing comments from our library users.

Links:

• NLH Mental Health
  
• NLH Mental Health - Depression Annual Evidence Update
• NICE depression clinical guideline