Recommendation(s)

Health care providers can offer different treatment formats of WHO’s recommended, structured psychological interventions for adults and older adolescents with depressive disorder. These include behavioural activation [BA], cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), or problem-solving treatment as an adjunct treatment. Different treatment formats for consideration include (a) individual and/or group face-to-face psychological treatments delivered by professionals and supervised lay therapists, as well as (b) self-help psychological treatment. While face-to-face psychological treatment or guided self-help psychological treatment are likely to have better outcomes than unguided self-help, the latter may be suitable for those people who either (a) do not have access to face-to-face psychological treatment or guided self-help psychological treatment or (b) are not willing to access such treatments.
Strength of recommendation: CONDITIONAL
Quality of evidence: LOW