Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for patients with chronic lung disease and psychological comorbidities undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation.

Conclusions: In this RCT of patients with chronic lung diseases attending pulmonary rehabilitation, there was no evidence found for improved symptoms of anxiety or depression or health-related quality of life with the addition of CBT given in a mixed face-to-face and telephone format, compared to usual care. Slower than anticipated recruitment, leading to a smaller than planned sample size, and a high dropout rate in the group allocated to CBT may have limited the effectiveness of the behavioural intervention approach in this study. PMID: 31737351 [PubMed]
Source: Journal of Thoracic Disease - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Thorac Dis Source Type: research