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CBT - help or cure?

  • 01-07-2008 1:43pm
    #1
    TravelJunkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭


    Hi,

    just wondering whether CBT will get rid of panic attacks, I'm sure it helps, but do they ever truly go away or is it something that has to be practised for the rest of your life?

    Thanks for any answers.


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  • #2
    Fatloss08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 509 ✭✭✭Fatloss08


    + 1

    id like to know this also


  • #3
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    Go to google scholar, type in CBT Panic Outcome Studies and you'll get loads of info:

    eg

    A meta-analysis of treatment outcome for panic disorder

    Robert A. Gould, Michael W. Ott and Mark H. Pollack

    Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, U.S.A.


    Available online 22 December 1999.

    Abstract

    We compared the effectiveness of pharmacological, cognitive-behavioral, and combined pharmacological and cognitive-behavioral treatments in a meta-analysis of 43 controlled studies that included 76 treatment interventions. Cognitive-behavioral treatments yielded the highest mean effect sizes (ES = 0.68) relative to pharmacological (ES = 0.47) and combination treatments (ES = 0.56). In addition, the proportion of subjects who dropped out of cognitive-behavioral treatments was 5.6% relative to 19.8% in pharmacological treatments and 22.0% in combined treatments. Among cognitive-behavioral treatments, those studies that combined cognitive restructuring with interoceptive exposure yielded the strongest effect sizes (ES = 0.88). With regard to pharmacological treatments, there was no significant difference between antidepressants (ES = 0.55) and benzodiazepines (ES = 0.40). Long-term outcome analyses suggested that cognitive-behavioral interventions were the most successful at maintaining treatment gains. Cost analyses indicated that the lowest cost interventions were imipramine treatment and group cognitive-behavioral therapy. In general, cognitive-behavioral treatments yielded the largest effects sizes and the smallest attrition rates relative to pharmacotherapy and combined treatments, and are cost-effective.


    Alternatively, try the psychology forum! :)


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