Julia Boberg and colleagues recently published this paper on the MULTI-PSYCH- Swedish multimodal cohort of patients with anxiety or depression treated with internet-delivered psychotherapy.
As the title indicates, MULTI-PSYCH is a cohort of patients with anxiety and depression who have been treated with internet-delivered CBT. It is multi modal in the sense that it contains clinical, genetic and nationwide registry data.
MULTI-PSYCH is well positioned for research collaboration. Using MULTI-PSYCH, researchers can improve risk stratification, outcome prediction and secondary preventive interventions. It provides a unique infrastructure to study not only predictors or short-term treatment outcomes, but also longer term medical and socioeconomic outcomes in patients treated with ICBT for depression or anxiety.
Points about the cohort:
- Includes 2668 clinically well-characterised adults with major depressive disorder, social anxiety disorder or panic disorder.
- The patients are assessed before, during and after 12 weeks of ICBT.
- All patients have been blood sampled and genotyped.
- Clinical and genetic data is to several Swedish registers containing a wide range of variables from patient birth up to 10 years after the end of ICB. These variables include:
- perinatal complications
- school grades
- psychiatric and somatic comorbidity
- dispensed medications
- medical interventions and diagnoses
- healthcare and social benefits
- demographics
- income
- more
Rücklab - Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet 