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Cognitive behavioural therapy for a variety of conditions: an overview of systematic reviews and panoramic meta-analysis

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    Extended Research Article Our publication formats
  • Headline:
    This review found that the best-quality evidence, across different conditions, estimated that CBT consistently produces a modest benefit in health-related quality of life.
  • Authors:
    Julia Hamer-Hunt,
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    Beth Fordham1,*, Thavapriya Sugavanam1, Katherine Edwards1, Karla Hemming2, Jeremy Howick3, Bethan Copsey1, Hopin Lee1, Milla Kaidesoja4, Shona Kirtley1, Sally Hopewell1, Roshan das Nair5,6, Robert Howard7, Paul Stallard8, Julia Hamer-Hunt9, Zafra Cooper10, Sarah E Lamb1,11

    • 1 Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • 2 Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
    • 3 Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • 4 Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • 5 Department of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
    • 6 Institute of Mental Health, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham, UK
    • 7 Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
    • 8 Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK
    • 9 Public and patient representative, Oxford, UK
    • 10 Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    • 11 College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
    • * Corresponding author email: beth.fordham@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
    • Declared competing interests of authors: Zafra Cooper reports occasional fees for lectures and workshops on cognitive–behaviour therapy (CBT) for eating disorders, and payment to provide various clinical and research groups with supervision in CBT for eating disorders. Roshan das Nair reports being chairperson of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research for Patient Benefit East Midlands Regional Advisory Committee (2019 to present); he was also a NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research funding panel member (2018–20). Sally Hopewell reports membership of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Clinical Evaluation and Trials Committee from 2018 to the present. Robert Howard reports grants from NIHR HTA and Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programmes during the conduct of the study. He was a member of the HTA Commissioning Committee (2013–18) and the HTA Commissioning Sub-board (2016–17). Milla Kaidesoja reports grants from the Helsinki Institute of Life Science during the conduct of the study. Sarah E Lamb was on the HTA Additional Capacity Funding Board (2012–15), the HTA End of Life Care and Add-on Studies Board (September 2015), the HTA Prioritisation Group Board (2010–15) and the HTA Trauma Board (2007–8).

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    Health Technology Assessment programme
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    Volume: 25, Issue: 9
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  • Citation:
    Fordham B, Sugavanam T, Edwards K, Hemming K, Howick J, Copsey B, et al. Cognitive–behavioural therapy for a variety of conditions: an overview of systematic reviews and panoramic meta-analysis. Health Technol Assess 2021;25(9). https://doi.org/10.3310/hta25090
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