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      <journal-title>Journal of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2141-2286</issn>      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Academic Journals</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5897/JNBH.9000018</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title><![CDATA[Non-drug strategies in the management of depression: A comprehensive study of systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials]]></article-title>
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        	          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Sameer</surname>
            <given-names>Dhingra</given-names>
          </name>
                    <name name-style="western">
            <surname></surname>
            <given-names></given-names>
          </name>
                    <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Milind</surname>
            <given-names>Parle</given-names>
          </name>
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		<corresp id="cor1">* E-mail: <email xlink:type="simple">sameerdhingra78@yahoo.com</email></corresp>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2011</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
      	<day>31</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2011</year>
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      					<date date-type="accepted">
			<day>27</day>
			<month>05</month>
			<year>2011</year>
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      <volume>3</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
	  	  <fpage>66</fpage>
	  <lpage>73</lpage>
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      <abstract><![CDATA[Between 5 to 10% of the population experience depression at any time in any year, needing psychiatric or psychosocial intervention. The World Health Organization has reported that depression#39;s financial burden globally ranked fourth in 2000, and will increase by 2020 to be the second most costly disease. This paper focus on the range of non-drug strategies available to patients, other than prescribed pharmacological treatments, which could be helpful in treating depression.

	 

	Key words: Systematic review, meta-analysis, depression, non-drug, psychological therapies, exercise and lifestyle interventions, complementary and alternative treatments.]]></abstract>
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