Emotional blunting in patients with depression. Part IV: differences between patient and physician perceptions

Table 2 Patient and healthcare provider net agreement with the items of the ‘antidepressant as cause’ domain of the Oxford Depression Questionnaire

	Patient agreement^a (%)	HCP agreement^a (%)
The antidepressant is preventing me/the patient from feeling my/their emotions in some way	45	30
The antidepressant seems to make me/the patient just not care about things that should matter to me/them	40	17
The antidepressant seems to make me/the patient feel emotionally disconnected from people around me/them	42	16
The antidepressant is preventing me/the patient from feeling pleasant emotions	33	13
The antidepressant changes the way that I/the patient experience(s) my/their emotions in a way that is unhelpful (not helpful) to me/them at the moment	34	10
I/the patient have/has considered stopping (or have/has already stopped) my/their antidepressant because of its emotional side effects	39	18

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