Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
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Psychother Psychosom · Jan 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialAnxiety as a predictor of improvements in somatic symptoms and health anxiety associated with cognitive-behavioral intervention in hypochondriasis.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been shown to be beneficial in the treatment of hypochondriasis. In this study, we sought to determine whether there was a differential treatment effect for patients with greater levels of anxiety at the outset of treatment. ⋯ High anxiety at entry into the CBT program predicted a better treatment outcome.
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Psychother Psychosom · Jan 2011
Low level of optimism predicts initiation of psychotherapy for depression: results from the Finnish Public Sector Study.
The patient's personality may be one of the many factors that contribute to the decision to initiate a certain treatment for depression. The aim of this study was to examine whether dispositional optimism and pessimism play a role in the initiation of psychotherapy as the treatment for new-onset depression in previously nondepressed public sector employees. ⋯ This study suggests that although both low optimism and high pessimism increase the risk for depression, only low optimism influences the initiation of psychotherapy as a treatment modality for depression. This could imply that depressed patients with low optimism should receive more attention in the beginning of the depressive episode than patients with high optimism.