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Study | Disorder or problem | Ethnicity | Gender | Design | Intervention | Duration of treatment | Outcome measure | Treatment result (+ve/−ve) |
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(8) Woon and Teoh [24] | Depression with hysterical personality disorder | Chinese | Female | Case study | Psychodynamic therapy and amitriptyline | 1 year and 5 months | NA | Positive |
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(9) Ong and Lee [25] | Depressive neurosis and manic depressive | Malay Chinese Indian | Male Female | RCT | Nomifensine and amitriptyline | 9 weeks | HDRS; Global clinical parameter | Positive with few adverse effects |
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(10) Indran [26] | Depression (12) Dysthymia (3) Anxiety (3) Bipolar (1) Schizophrenia (1) (Outpatient) | Malays Indian Chinese Others | Male Female | RCT | Moclobemide | 6 weeks | HDRS; CGI; PGI | Positive with few adverse effects |
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(11) Azhar and Varma [27] | Depression | Malays | NA | RCT | Religious supportive therapy | 15–20 sessions | HDRS | Positive |
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(12) Razali [28] | Depression | Malay | Male Female | Case study | Dothiepin and maprotiline | 3 month and 1 month | NA | Positive |
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(13) Razali et al. [29] | Depression and anxiety | Malays | NA | RCT | Religious supportive therapy + benzodiazepines or antidepressants | 26 weeks | HARS; HDRS | Positive |
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(14) Razali and Hasanah [30] | Depression (Outpatient) | Malay | NA | RCT | Amitriptyline, imipramine, dothiepin and maprotiline | 8 weeks | HDRS | Positive |
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(15) Razali [31] | Masked Depression (Outpatient) | Malay | Female | Case Study | Dothiepin | 6 weeks | NA | Positive |
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(16) Ng and Stevens [32] | Depression | Malaysian Chinese ; others | Male Female | RCT | Sertraline (SSRI) | 6 weeks | HDRS; CGI; LUNSERS; Plasma measurement | Positive with few adverse effects |
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(17) Azhar et al. | Depression (Outpatient) | | NA | RCT | CBT + ESCCBT + STRCBT + FXT | 12 weeks | HADS; BDI; WHO-QOL | Positive; CBT + ESC show better |
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(18) Mukhtar et al. [33] | Depression (Outpatient) | Malays | Male Female | RCT | GCBT + TAUTAU | 8 sessions; 1 month | ATQ; DAS | Positive and maintained at 3 and 6 month followups |
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