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Synopsis A clinical trial was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of social work intervention with a group of depressed women attending their general practitioner for treatment. Social work treatment was ineffective for the group of women as a whole on changes in social scores, clinical ratings, or visits to the doctor. The results suggest, however, that social work help benefited those with ‘acute on chronic’ illness but had no effect on those with more acute conditions.
Roslyn Corney (Fri,) studied this question.
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