{"id":3611,"date":"2020-02-27T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/socialmed\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2020-02-27T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:18:50","slug":"jeffrey-sonis-publishes-in-psychiatry-research-which-is-more-effective-for-treating-ptsd-medication-or-psychotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/socialmed\/jeffrey-sonis-publishes-in-psychiatry-research-which-is-more-effective-for-treating-ptsd-medication-or-psychotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Sonis publishes in Psychiatry Research:  Which Is More Effective for Treating PTSD: Medication, or Psychotherapy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which Is More Effective for Treating PTSD: Medication, or Psychotherapy?<\/p>\n<p>A systematic review and meta-analysis led by Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, of UNC\u2019s departments of social medicine and family medicine, finds there is insufficient evidence at present to answer that question. Clinicians should make shared decisions with patients about treatment, and they should not rely on current treatment guidelines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/som-vital-signs\/2020\/feb-27\/which-is-more-effective-for-treating-ptsd-medication-or-psychotherapy?utm_source=vs-email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=9\">http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/som-vital-signs\/2020\/feb-27\/which-is-more-effective-for-treating-ptsd-medication-or-psychotherapy?utm_source=vs-email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0165178119308479\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0165178119308479<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which Is More Effective for Treating PTSD: Medication, or Psychotherapy? A systematic review and meta-analysis led by Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, of UNC\u2019s departments of social medicine and family medicine, finds there is insufficient evidence at present to answer that question. Clinicians should make shared decisions with patients about treatment, and they should not rely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/socialmed\/jeffrey-sonis-publishes-in-psychiatry-research-which-is-more-effective-for-treating-ptsd-medication-or-psychotherapy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jeffrey Sonis publishes in Psychiatry Research:  Which Is More Effective for Treating PTSD: Medication, or Psychotherapy?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58038,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jeffrey Sonis publishes in Psychiatry Research: Which Is More Effective for Treating PTSD: Medication, or Psychotherapy? | Department of Social Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/socialmed\/jeffrey-sonis-publishes-in-psychiatry-research-which-is-more-effective-for-treating-ptsd-medication-or-psychotherapy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jeffrey Sonis publishes in Psychiatry Research: Which Is More Effective for Treating PTSD: Medication, or Psychotherapy? | Department of Social Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Which Is More Effective for Treating PTSD: Medication, or Psychotherapy? 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