Asha Ladwa is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Mood Disorders Centre in the Psychology department at the University of Exeter. Asha’s research focuses on understanding how to improve access, engagement, and psychological treatments for adult depression. In her PhD at the University of Exeter she focused on understanding how psychological therapy works to reduce depression symptoms, and she is building on this in an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship to explore how to increase access, treatment engagement and outcomes for people from Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority (BAME) backgrounds.
What works better for young people with depression: therapy or medication? This new analysis shows why the trials may be too different to compare, and why value-based decisions matter more than ever.
In her debut blog, Asha Ladwa discusses a secondary analysis of data from the ANTLER trial, which investigated the clinical factors associated with relapse in primary care patients on long-term maintenance antidepressants.
