54.5% of patients received recommended antidepressant doses for 90 days or more.
Mean HDRS scores decreased from 14.1 to 8.8 in patients receiving less-than-recommended treatment, and decreased from 13.8 to 8.9 for patients with minimum recommended treatment (p=0.761).
No significant differences in improvements of HRQL outcomes during 6 months were observed between the study groups.