Precision in Psychiatry Study (PIPS)

About the study

Many patients with depression do not respond to their first drug treatment; it often takes several attempts before something works. This lack of precision means that patients suffer through months of ineffective treatment before getting any relief.

We aim to improve this by recruiting a large sample of individuals who have just started taking a new antidepressant and developing a training a tool to estimate a person’s likelihood of benefitting from a range of treatments. The tool is based on a set of clinical, demographic and cognitive data, which are designed to be feasible to collect in a clinical setting.

The ultimate aim of our study is to enable mental health professionals to use our tool to make more informed treatment choices for their patients and get help to the people that need it, faster.

If you would like more information about the research we are conducting, please visit https://www.antidepressantresearch.com/

What will it involve?

Participants are asked to complete an initial set of online brain games and self-reflection questionnaires (1.5-2 hours). They are then asked to check in with the research team weekly for 3 consecutive weeks (10-15 minutes) and then complete a final set of brain games/questionnaires ( 1-1.5 hours).

Participants can take part from anywhere in the world, all that is required is an internet connection and access to a desktop/laptop computer