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Antidepressant medication and positive mood

Source: R/data.R
antidepressants.Rd

A subset of data from Tomarken, Shelton, Elkins, and Anderson (1997) measuring the relation between changes in positive mood and supplemental antidepressant medication over the course of a week in a sample of 73 men and women already receiving nonpharmacological therapy for depression.

Usage

antidepressants

Format

A person-period data frame with 1242 rows and 6 columns:

id

Participant ID.

wave

Wave of measurement.

day

Day of measurement.

reading

Time of day of measurement.

positive_mood

Positive mood score.

treatment

Treatment condition (placebo pills = 0, antidepressant pills = 1).

Source

Tomarken, A. J., Shelton, R. C., Elkins, L., & Anderson, T. (1997). Sleep deprivation and anti-depressant medication: Unique effects on positive and negative affect. Poster session presented at the 9th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.