1. What is your understanding of the term difficult-to-treat-depression (DTTD)? | ||
2. What is your understanding of other terms; viz: treatment-resistant depression (TResD) treatment-refractory depression (TRefD), treatment-resistant major depressive disorder (TRMDD) and major depressive disorder (MDD)? | ||
3. What are your experiences of diagnosing DTTD? | ||
4. What are your experiences of managing DTTD? | ||
5. Does your management of these patients include: | ||
a. using an illness management model or a chronic illness model [25] ; | ||
b. communication with GPs; | ||
c. referring the patient to other allied health professionals; and | ||
d. suggesting/prescribing other non-pharmacological and/or complementary treatment? | ||
6. If “no” to any of Question 5, have you ever considered using any of these options/other comments? | ||
We start with an assessment, actually working out what were the presenting problems. (P1) I think there’s also an element that you aren’t able to engage the person in any level of responsiveness in self-management or anything like that, minimum insight. (P7) | ||