Folate Augmentation of Treatment - Evaluation for Depression: a Randomised Controlled Trial

Summary

To determine whether giving folic acid to people with depression will help their antidepressants work better. If folate does help antidepressants to work better, then it will provide a safe, simple and cheap way of improving the treatment of depression.

Timeline

Start

2007-07

Primary completion

2011-05

Completion

2011-05

Publications

• Background Roberts SH, Bedson E, Hughes D, Lloyd K, Menkes DB, Moat S, Pirmohamed M, Slegg G, Thome J, Tranter R, Whitaker R, Wilkinson C, Russell I. Folate augmentation of treatment - evaluation for depression (FolATED): protocol of a randomised controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry. 2007 Nov 15;7:65. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-7-65.

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