Trauma-focused psychotherapies for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Meta-analytic reviews suggest similar outcomes across trauma-focused psychotherapies for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, this conclusion may be premature due to suboptimal statistical-review methodologies. Network meta-analysis (NMA) allows a detailed rank-ordering of the efficacy of established psychotherapy interventions derived from indirect evidence as well as results from direct head-to-head comparisons.

Objective

We sought to determine the efficacy and attrition rates of psychotherapy interventions for PTSD by applying NMA.

Methods

We searched EMBASE, PsychINFO, PTSDPubs and PubMed for randomised controlled trials that compared psychotherapies either head-to-head or against controls for adults with PTSD. A frequentist NMA

SUBMITTER: Jericho B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9539869 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature