A survey of the importance of outcomes for depression trials.

The benefit of a treatment is measured through the performance of one outcome, which is typically linked to reduction in symptoms in depression but often these single outcomes are not always the most important to those receiving or providing the treatment.

We would like to test a new way of including the importance of outcome to those who will be receiving treatments within the research stage by presenting them with two list of statements linked to possible treatment outcomes from two completed trials in depression and being asked to assign points to these based upon the importance of that area to them.