Studies // Cited work
Guided self-help concreteness training as an intervention for major depression in primary care: A Phase II randomized controlled trial
Watkins, E. R., Taylor, R. S., Byng, R., Baeyens, C., Read, R., Pearson, K., & Watson, L. (2012). Guided self-help concreteness training as an intervention for major depression in primary care: A Phase II randomized controlled trial.
Level B Experiment doi:10.1017/S0033291711002480
What this study supports
Supports the claims that adding concreteness training improved depressive symptoms at post-treatment and 3- and 6-month follow-ups, that it did not reduce symptoms more than relaxation training, and that it reduced rumination and overgeneralisation more than relaxation. A Phase II trial described by its authors as preliminary evidence.
- Who was studied
- 121 primary-care patients with current major depression randomly allocated to usual care, usual care plus concreteness training, or usual care plus relaxation training.
- Design
- Experiment
- Level of evidence
- Controlled studies: randomised or experimental designs, and syntheses of correlational work.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
Training people to think more concretely reduced depressive symptoms and rumination in a randomised trial in dysphoria, and in a Phase II trial in major depression it improved symptoms when added to usual care but not more than relaxation training, while reducing rumination more.
- Scope
- Structured concreteness training in adults with dysphoria or major depression.
- Caveat
- Small and Phase II trials from one research group; the self-help steps on this site follow the principle but are not the tested programme.
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