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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for schizophrenia - outcomes for functioning, distress and quality of life: a meta-analysis

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Title
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for schizophrenia - outcomes for functioning, distress and quality of life: a meta-analysis
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BMC Psychology, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40359-018-0243-2
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Keith R. Laws, Nicole Darlington, Tejinder K. Kondel, Peter J. McKenna, Sameer Jauhar

Abstract

The effect of cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) on the core symptoms of schizophrenia has proven contentious, with current meta-analyses finding at most only small effects. However, it has been suggested that the effects of CBTp in areas other than psychotic symptoms are at least as important and potentially benefit from the intervention. We meta-analysed RCTs investigating the effectiveness of CBTp for functioning, distress and quality of life in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and related disorders. Data from 36 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) met our inclusion criteria- 27 assessing functioning (1579 participants); 8 for distress (465 participants); and 10 for quality of life (592 participants). The pooled effect size for functioning was small but significant for the end-of-trial (0.25: 95% CI: 0.14 to 0.33); however, this became non-significant at follow-up (0.10 [95%CI -0.07 to 0.26]). Although a small benefit of CBT was evident for reducing distress (0.37: 95%CI 0.05 to 0.69), this became nonsignificant when adjusted for possible publication bias (0.18: 95%CI -0.12 to 0.48). Finally, CBTp showed no benefit for improving quality of life (0.04: 95% CI: -0.12 to 0.19). CBTp has a small therapeutic effect on functioning at end-of-trial, although this benefit is not evident at follow-up. Although CBTp produced a small benefit on distress, this was subject to possible publication bias and became nonsignificant when adjusted. We found no evidence that CBTp increases quality of life post-intervention.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 323 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 50 15%
Student > Master 38 12%
Researcher 25 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 8%
Student > Postgraduate 14 4%
Other 52 16%
Unknown 119 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 120 37%
Medicine and Dentistry 34 11%
Social Sciences 8 2%
Neuroscience 7 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 2%
Other 17 5%
Unknown 130 40%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 127. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 September 2022.
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#3
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