Reducing dropout in acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and problem-solving therapy for chronic pain and cancer patients using motivational interviewing.

CONCLUSIONS: A brief MI telephone intervention may improve adherence to group CBTs in cancer and chronic pain. PRACTITIONER POINTS: A brief motivational interviewing (MI) telephone intervention may reduce dropout from group cognitive-behavioural therapies (CBTs) for cancer and chronic pain patients when administered after the first group session in routine care. Recipients of this intervention were five times more likely to complete a group CBT programme than those who did not receive it. Therefore, a minimal-dose MI intervention can have clinically important effects on dropout in group CBTs for patients with long-term conditions. It is unclear whether this intervention would also result in greater outcome improvements. PMID: 32478862 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Clinical Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Br J Clin Psychol Source Type: research