Access to treatment protocols and manuals for evidence-based psychological interventions for severe mental disorders: a survey of randomised trials included in network meta-analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence-based psychological interventions for mental disorders are described in treatment protocols and manuals, which detail treatment components and conditions of application. Systematic evaluations of the accessibility of treatment protocols and manuals across multiple mental disorders are absent.

Objective

We assessed whether treatment protocols or manuals for psychological interventions for severe mental disorders are accessible and publicly available.

Study selection and analysis

We surveyed randomised controlled trials (RCTs) from six large network meta-analyses of psychological interventions for severe mental disorders (psychotic, borderline personality, substance use, bipolar, anorexia and bulimia nervosa). Between January 2024 and February 2025,

SUBMITTER: Blithikioti C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12010291 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature