Why do patients go off track? Examining potential influencing factors for being at risk of psychotherapy treatment failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Routine outcome monitoring can support clinicians to detect patients who deteriorate [not-on-track (NOT)] early in psychotherapy. Implemented Clinical Support Tools can direct clinicians' attention towards potential obstacles to a positive treatment outcome and provide suggestions for suitable interventions. However, few studies have compared NOT patients to patients showing expected progress [on-track (OT)] regarding such obstacles. This study aimed to identify domains that have predictive value for NOT trajectories and to compare OT and NOT patients regarding these domains and the items of the underlying scales.

Methods

During treatment, 413 outpatients filled in the Hopkins-Symptom-Checklist-11 (depressive and anxious symptom distress) before every therapy sess

SUBMITTER: Schilling VNLS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8528765 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature