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Treatment choice most often occurred between psychotherapy and antidepressant medication (43.3%), followed by choice between two different forms of psychotherapy, or elements within psychotherapy (36.7%). There were insufficient studies with stringent designs to conduct meta-analyses for anxiety or eating disorders as outcomes, or for treatment uptake. Treatment choice significantly improved outcomes for depression (<jats:italic>d<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00.17, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a018) and decreased therapy dropout, both in a combined sample targeting depression (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a012), anxiety (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a04) and eating disorders (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a01; OR\u00a0=\u00a01.46, 95% CI: 1.17, 1.83), and in a smaller sample of the depression studies alone (OR\u00a0=\u00a01.65, 95% CI: 1.05, 2.59). All studies evaluated the impact of adults making treatment choices with none examining the effect of choice in adolescents. 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