Background: Brief interventions have been increasingly investigated to promote early intervention in gambling problems; an accurate estimate of the impact of these interventions is required to justify their widespread implementation. The goal of the current investigation was to evaluate the effic...

Aims: To assess the effectiveness of brief interventions in primary care aimed at reducing or discontinuing long-term benzodiazepine/Z-drug (BZRA) use. Method: Systematic review of randomized controlled trials of brief interventions in primary care settings aimed at reducing or discontinuing l...

This systematic review proposed to explore the feasibility and effectiveness of brief interventions to prevent depression in older subjects. Computer databases were searched for potentially relevant articles published up until August, 2007. The bibliographies of relevant articles were searched fo...

Objective: The study aim was to examine the effects of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) on the pregnancy outcomes of women receiving in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) treatment. Methods: A literature review was performed using the databases MEDLINE, the Cochrane Database, Emb...

This is a systematic review and meta-analysis on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the effects of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBTI) as a monotherapy and active control treatments in persons with insomnia who have no major medical conditions or psychiatric comorbi...

This meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the effect of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in improving the depression symptoms of patients with diabetes. Literature search was conducted in PubMed and Embase up to October 2016 without the initial date. The pooled SMD (standard mean difference...

Background: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a psychosocial treatment that aims to re-mediate distressing emotional experiences or dysfunctional behaviour by changing the way in which a person interprets and evaluates the experience or cognates on its consequence and meaning. This approach ...

Background: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a psychosocial treatment that aims to help individuals re-evaluate their appraisals of their experiences that can affect their level of distress and problematic behaviour. CBT is now recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excel...

Background: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), incorporating exposure and response prevention (ERP) is widely recognised as the psychological treatment of choice for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Uncertainty remains however about the magnitude of the effect of CBT with ERP and the impa...

Background: The cognitive behavioural treatment for anger in adults with intellectual disabilities has received increasing interest. The current study aims to review the current literature and provide a meta-analysis. Method: A literature search found 12 studies eligible for the quality apprai...