Treatment of worry and comorbid symptoms within depression, anxiety, and insomnia with a group-based rumination-focused cognitive-behaviour therapy in a primary health care setting: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) has been described as a maintaining transdiagnostic factor for psychopathology within the areas of depression, anxiety and insomnia. We investigated the effects of rumination-focused cognitive-behaviour therapy (RF-CBT) in a group format at a primary health care centre on symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, RNT, and quality of life. The participants presented clinical symptom levels of worry and at least two disorders among anxiety disorders, major depressive disorder, and insomnia disorder.

Methods

A randomised controlled superiority parallel arm trial was used. 73 participants were included and randomised in pairs to either group-administered RF-CBT or a waiting list condition. The primary outcomes were self-rated worr

SUBMITTER: Wallsten D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10513770 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature