@article {Zhang139, author = {Anao Zhang and Sunyoung Park and John E. Sullivan and Shijie Jing}, title = {The Effectiveness of Problem-Solving Therapy for Primary Care Patients{\textquoteright} Depressive and/or Anxiety Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis}, volume = {31}, number = {1}, pages = {139--150}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.3122/jabfm.2018.01.170270}, publisher = {The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine}, abstract = {Background: There is increasing demand for managing depressive and/or anxiety disorders among primary care patients. Problem-solving therapy (PST) is a brief evidence- and strength-based psychotherapy that has received increasing support for its effectiveness in managing depression and anxiety among primary care patients.Methods: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials examining PST for patients with depression and/or anxiety in primary care as identified by searches for published literature across 6 databases and manual searching. A weighted average of treatment effect size estimates per study was used for meta-analysis and moderator analysis.Results: From an initial pool of 153 primary studies, 11 studies (with 2072 participants) met inclusion criteria for synthesis. PST reported an overall significant treatment effect for primary care depression and/or anxiety (d = 0.673; P \< .001). Participants{\textquoteright} age and sex moderated treatment effects. Physician-involved PST in primary care, despite a significantly smaller treatment effect size than mental health provider only PST, reported an overall statistically significant effect (d = 0.35; P = .029).Conclusions: Results from the study supported PST{\textquoteright}s effectiveness for primary care depression and/or anxiety. Our preliminary results also indicated that physician-involved PST offers meaningful improvements for primary care patients{\textquoteright} depression and/or anxiety.}, issn = {1557-2625}, URL = {https://www.jabfm.org/content/31/1/139}, eprint = {https://www.jabfm.org/content/31/1/139.full.pdf}, journal = {The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine} }