Strategies to improve access to cognitive behavioral therapies for anxiety disorders: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Strategies to improve access to evidence-based psychological treatments (EBPTs) include but are not limited to implementation strategies. No currently available framework accounts for the full scope of strategies available to allow stakeholders to improve access to EBPTs. Anxiety disorders are common and impactful mental conditions for which EBPTs, especially cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT), are well-established yet often hard to access.

Objective

Describe and classify the various strategies reported to improve access to CBT for anxiety disorders.

Methods

Scoping review with a keyword search of several databases + additional grey literature documents reporting on strategies to improve access to CBT for anxiety disorders. A thematic and inductive analys

SUBMITTER: Carrier JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8887746 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature