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More studies of long-term therapies, using outcome measures of core psychopathology, are needed.
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Overall, the trials that used outcome measures of depression aimed to look at depressive and anxiety symptoms as opposed to clinical depression, with only two trials showing a small percentage of clinically depressed patients 12, 33 and four studies using clinical depression or the use of antidepressants as an exclusion criteria 12, 20, 23, 35.
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The FT is a commonly used outcome measure of EBP knowledge and skills[ 11- 13].
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Such perceptions were reported to decrease clinicians' likelihood of using outcome measures in practice.
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