TY - JOUR AU - Nussbaumer-Streit, Barbara AU - Pjrek, Edda AU - Kien, Christina AU - Gartlehner, Gerald AU - Bartova, Lucie AU - Friedrich, Michaela-Elena AU - Kasper, Siegfried AU - Winkler, Dietmar PY - 2018 DA - 2018/11/26 TI - Implementing prevention of seasonal affective disorder from patients’ and physicians’ perspectives – a qualitative study JO - BMC Psychiatry SP - 372 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a seasonally recurrent type of major depression that has detrimental effects on patients’ lives during winter. Little is known about how it affects patients during summer and about patients’ and physicians’ perspectives on preventive SAD treatment. The aim of our study was to explore how SAD patients experience summers, what type of preventive treatment patients implement, which preventive treatment methods, if any, physicians recommend, and what factors facilitate or hinder implementation/recommendation of SAD prevention. SN - 1471-244X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1951-0 DO - 10.1186/s12888-018-1951-0 ID - Nussbaumer-Streit2018 ER -