BACKGROUND Nonprofessional caregivers are highly important in the everyday life of patients with depression. Yet, they may experience increased levels of burden, stress, depression, and anxiety. Therefore, there is a need for interventions that relieve symptoms and are accessible and time-efficient. This paper describes the protocol of a pilot study to evaluate (1) the feasibility of an online ...

Mobile health (mHealth) could be widely used in the population to improve access to psychological treatment. In this paper, we describe the development of a mHealth intervention on the basis of supportive self-monitoring and describe the protocol for a randomized controlled trial to evaluate its effectiveness among smartphone users with psychological distress. Based on power analysis, a represe...

BACKGROUND Emergency room nurses were trained to provide a short-term psychological intervention in physically injured patients with Impact of Event Scale (IES) scores > 20. The aims were to study the effects of the psychological intervention relative to usual care (UC). METHODS In a randomized controlled trial, psychological distress, daily functioning and the personality traits optimism/pes...

objective: to determine the effect of group cognitive behavior therapy (cbt) on psychological hardiness and coping strategies of infertile women undergoing assisted reproductive therapy (art). methods: two groups of infertile women who received art consisted of experimental group (15 females) and control group (16 females) were compared. the participants in experimental group received 15 sessio...

BACKGROUND Cancer patients with advanced disease who have exhausted most treatment options are often offered participation in Phase I clinical trials. To date, studies that assess the benefits of palliative care provided concurrently in Phase I clinical trial settings are lacking. The overall purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of a palliative care intervention administered concur...

BACKGROUND A health promotion intervention was developed for inflammatory arthritis patients, based on goal management. Elevated levels of depression and anxiety symptoms, which indicate maladjustment, are found in such patients. Other indicators of adaptation to chronic disease are positive affect, purpose in life and social participation. The new intervention focuses on to improving adaptatio...

BACKGROUND Employing waiting list control designs in psychological and behavioral intervention research may artificially inflate intervention effect estimates. This exploratory randomized controlled trial tested this proposition in a study employing a brief intervention for problem drinkers, one domain of research in which waiting list control designs are used. METHODS All participants (N = 1...

Background: Research shows that transcranial direct current stimulation is effective in reducing depression and anxiety. Objectives: This research aimed at anxiety methadone users with stimulation. Methods: study a randomized clinical trial pretest-posttest. The sample of this was 60 who had severe Participants were allocated to two experimental (n = 30) control groups 30). regions, F3 (cathode...

BACKGROUND Expectant mothers and mothers of young children are especially vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV). The nurse-family partnership (NFP) is a home visitation program in the United States effective for the prevention of adverse child health outcomes. Evidence regarding the effect of nurse home visiting on IPV is inconsistent. This study aims to study the effect of VoorZorg, th...

OBJECTIVE To describe formative and pilot-testing research that generated themes and procedures, curricula, and critical measures for a randomized clinical trial testing a Risk Reduction Intervention for HIV-serodiscordant African American couples (Project Eban). DESIGN This article describes the themes that emerged from discussions with African American serodiscordant couples about HIV-relat...