Background: Traumatic physical injury can result in many disabling sequelae including physical and mental health problems and impaired social functioning. Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in the prevention of physical, mental and social disability following...

Introduction: The objective of this network meta-analysis was to synthesize the evidence of the comparative effectiveness for various interventions used for orthodontic pain relief during peak pain intensity. Methods: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials database...

This article reviews the efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) in depression compared to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or behavioral therapy (BT). In this review, only studies in which at least 13 therapy sessions were performed have been included, and a sufficient number...

In a review of 19 clinically relevant comparative outcome studies published 1978-1988, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) was evaluated as to overall effects, differential effects, and moderating effects vis-à-vis no-treatment controls (NT) and alternative psychotherapies (AP), respect...

Importance: Functional abdominal pain disorders (FAPDs) can severely affect the life of children and their families, with symptoms carrying into adulthood. Management of FADP symptoms is also a financial and time burden to clinicians and health care systems. Objective: To systematically review...

Background: Depression and anxiety are the most common mental disorders in children and adolescents. Bibliotherapy is a treatment using written materials for mental health problems. Its main advantages are ease of use, low cost, low staffing demands, and greater privacy. Yet few meta-analyses hav...

Background: Violence exposure (direct, indirect, individual, structural) affects youth mental health. Objective: We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in addressing the sequelae of violence exposure on youth (15-24 years old) and evaluate whether moderating facto...

Aim: To explore the best non-pharmaceutical interventions for improving the behavioural and psychological symptoms in elders with dementia. Design: Bayesian network meta-analysis. Methods: A comprehensive electronic literature search was performed in five English databases and four Chinese ...

Background: Excessive alcohol use during pregnancy has been associated with adverse maternal and neonatal effects. It is therefore important to develop and evaluate effective interventions during this important time in a woman's life. To our knowledge there have been no systematic reviews of rand...

A meta-analysis was conducted on 61 treatment outcome trials for post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Conditions included drug therapies (TCAs, carbamazepine, MAOIs, SSRIs, and BDZs), psychological therapies (behaviour therapy, Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), relaxati...