Positive affect treatment targets reward sensitivity: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Determine whether a novel psychosocial treatment for positive affect improves clinical status and reward sensitivity more than a form of cognitive behavioral therapy that targets negative affect and whether improvements in reward sensitivity correlate with improvements in clinical status.

Method

In this assessor-blinded, parallel-group, multisite, two-arm randomized controlled clinical superiority trial, 85 treatment-seeking adults with severely low positive affect, moderate-to-severe depression or anxiety, and functional impairment received 15 weekly individual therapy sessions of positive affect treatment (PAT) or negative affect treatment (NAT). Clinical status measures were self-reported positive affect, interviewer-rated anhedonia, and self-reported depression

SUBMITTER: Craske MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10213148 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature