Digital CBT involved 6 weekly remote sessions via website or iOS app lasting approximately 20 minutes and comprised sleep restriction, stimulus control, relaxation techniques, cognitive therapy, and sleep hygiene and education.
The most common subjects of worry were cancer, heart-related diseases, and neurological diseases.
Patients with health anxiety fear undetected medical illness, resulting in frequent consultations, requests for tests, and appeals for reassurance from medical professionals and relatives.
Online searches can reinforce patients’ assumptions about their health status, as well as cause debilitating anxieties.
The researchers identified greater baseline attachment anxiety and poorer therapeutic alliance as predictors of low treatment response in patients with social anxiety disorder.
Telephone-based motivational interviewing may improve a patient’s rate of initiating behavioral therapy for treatment of migraine.
The study examined the importance of confronting general dysfunctional beliefs, particularly notions of low self-efficacy and failure, in short-term therapy for patients with IBD.
Self-monitoring behaviors may serve as a potential mediator of therapeutic change for patients with epilepsy.
Although 70% of patients with major depressive disorder prefer psychotherapy to pharmacotherapy, <25% receive any form of psychotherapy.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) may reduce the incidence of insomnia symptoms in adolescents, according to study data presented at the 2019 World Sleep Congress.
