Background: Patients with a terminal disease report a high need for psychosocial and spiritual support. Previous literature reviews on psychosocial interventions in palliative care were restricted to certain subtypes of techniques, included a wide range of patients, conditions, and settings, o...

Background: Previous reviews and meta-analyses demonstrated effects of cognitive interventions in dementia, but none specifically considered residents with dementia in long-term care (LTC) facilities. Objective: To analyse the efficacy of cognitive interventions in institutionalised individual...

Objective: Because evidence-based psychotherapies of 12 to 20 sessions can be perceived as too lengthy and time intensive for the treatment of depression in primary care, a number of studies have examined abbreviated psychotherapy protocols. The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic r...

Background: The evolution of dementia depends on the underlying pathology, early diagnosis and the availability of effective treatment for some of the symptoms that interfere with the patients’ or caregivers’ quality of life. Even though there is no specific treatment to reverse dementia, so...

Purpose Individuals with non-central nervous system (CNS) cancers can experience cancer-related cognitive dysfunction (CRCD), negatively impacting daily functioning and quality of life. This systematic review examined cognitive rehabilitation programs aimed at improving cognitive function. Met...

Anxiety disorders are among the most common disorders affecting youths in the general population, with up to 10% of children and 20% of adolescents meeting criteria for an anxiety disorder at any one point in time. Cognitive-behavior therapies (CBT), varying between 9 and 18 weeks of treatment, a...

Background: Executive functions are the controlling mechanisms of the brain and include the processes of planning, initiation, organisation, inhibition, problem solving, self monitoring and error correction. They are essential for goal-oriented behaviour and responding to new and novel situations...

Objective: The RTI International-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evidence-based Practice Center systematically reviewed evidence on efficacy of treatment for bulimia nervosa (BN), harms associated with treatments, factors associated with treatment efficacy, and differential outcome by...

Background: Memory problems are a common cognitive complaint following stroke and can potentially affect ability to complete functional activities. Cognitive rehabilitation programmes either attempt to retrain lost or poor memory functions, or teach patients strategies to cope with them.Some stud...

Nine double-blind, placebo-controlled medication trials (870 subjects) and 26 randomized psychosocial studies (460 subjects) were included in a meta-analysis of bulimia nervosa (BN). Four treatment outcomes were analyzed: binge and purge frequency, depression (self-reported and interviewer-rate...