In psychological education using cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for the prevention of mental disorders, positive opinions have been raised about group work in learning, and it has suggested that may be effective motivating users CBT services Internet. this study, we developed a psychoeducational web application simulates teaches basic knowledge skills CBT. The user writes an answer such as ...

Smoking is the main cause of avoidable death and a major public health problem worldwide, with primary healthcare being strategic setting for treating this problem. Aims: to evaluate effectiveness motivational interviewing associated cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in smoking groups healthcare. A community-based cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted Brazil, starting July 2016. Prof...

Methods Fifty undergraduates in depressive states (CES-D score ≥16, HAMD score≥7, <17) were assigned to 4 groups based on intervention preference in a pragmatic trial. Electro-acupuncture, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and a combined intervention of electro-acupuncture and CBT were implemented as interventions. A rejected intervention group in which no intervention was practiced was conside...

There is a need for treatment interventions to address the high prevalence of disordered eating throughout adolescence and early adulthood. We developed an adolescent-specific manualized CBT protocol to treat female adolescents with recurrent binge eating and tested its efficacy in a small, pilot randomized controlled trial. We present lessons learned in recruiting adolescents, a description of...

Non-myeloablative allogeneic peripheral stem cell transplantation (NST) is a novel therapeutic strategy for patients with hematologic malignancies. Whether non-myeloablative transplants are associated with increased risk of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections is unknown. To clarify this issue, we compared the outcome of CMV infection following 24 allogeneic non-myeloablative peripheral blood stem ...

OBJECTIVE Tinnitus distress can be reduced by means of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT). To compensate for the shortage of CBT therapists, we aimed, in this study, to investigate the effects of a CBT-based self-help book guided by brief telephone support. METHODS Seventy-two patients were randomized either to a self-help book and seven weekly phone calls or to a wait-list control condition, l...

BACKGROUND While eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) is the most common eating disorder (ED) diagnosis in routine clinical practice, no specific treatment methods for this diagnosis have yet been developed and studied. Enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-E) has been described and put to the test as a transdiagnostic treatment protocol for all EDs, including EDNOS. Initial res...

Background: Dental phobia is a disabling and clinically significant fear that interferes with the dental care necessary for a child’s or adolescent’s well-being. In fact, the definition of oral health in children and adolescents stresses, not only sound and well-functioning dental and oral structures, but also an absence of dental fear and anxiety. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evide...