How short is too short? A randomised controlled trial evaluating short-term existential behavioural therapy for informal caregivers of palliative patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Informal caregivers of palliative patients show higher levels of depression and distress compared with the general population. Fegg's (2013) existential behavioural therapy was shortened to two individual 1-h sessions (short-term existential behavioural therapy).

Aim

Testing the effectiveness of sEBT on psychological symptoms of informal caregivers in comparison with active control.

Design

Randomised controlled trial.

Setting/participants

Informal caregivers of palliative in-patients.

Methods

The primary outcome was depression; secondary outcomes were anxiety, subjective distress and minor mental disorders, positive and negative affect, satisfaction with life, quality of life and direct health care costs. General linear mixed models allow seve

SUBMITTER: Kuhnel MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7243077 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature