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  • Psychiatry
  • Cognitive Psychology

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  • Effortful cognition involves intentional, goal-oriented processing, contrasting with automatic cognitive activities.
  • Understanding the effortful-automatic processing distinction is crucial for comprehending major depressive disorder (MDD) features.
  • This study explores the impact of problem-solving therapy (PST) on effortful cognition in individuals with MDD.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of problem-solving therapy (PST) on effortful cognition in patients with major depression (MD).
  • To compare the efficacy of antidepressant treatment (AT) versus combined AT and PST (CATP) in improving cognitive function and depressive symptoms.

Main Methods:

  • Participants included an antidepressant treatment (AT) group (n=31), a combined antidepressant treatment and PST (CATP) group (n=32), and healthy controls (HCs) (n=30).
  • Assessments included the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD) and the face-vignette task (FVT) at baseline and after 12 weeks for patient groups.
  • The basic facial emotion identification test (BFEIT) was administered at baseline to all participants.

Main Results:

  • Healthy controls demonstrated higher emotion identification accuracy than patients with MD on the BFEIT.
  • Patients with MD exhibited impaired performance on the face-vignette task (FVT).
  • The CATP group showed a greater reduction in HAMD scores and a more significant improvement in FVT performance compared to the AT group.

Conclusions:

  • Major depression is associated with dysfunction in effortful cognition.
  • Problem-solving therapy (PST) demonstrates efficacy in ameliorating effortful cognitive deficits in MDD.
  • Measuring effortful cognition may serve as a valuable indicator for assessing the therapeutic effectiveness of PST in MDD.