Title |
Religious versus Conventional Internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
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Published in |
Journal of Religion and Health, October 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/s10943-017-0503-0 |
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Authors |
Bogdan Tudor Tulbure, Gerhard Andersson, Nastasia Sălăgean, Michelle Pearce, Harold G. Koenig |
Abstract |
The accessibility and efficacy of two Internet-supported interventions for depression: conventional cognitive behavioral therapy (C-CBT) and religious CBT (R-CBT) were investigated. Depressed participants (N = 79) were randomly assigned to either active treatment or wait-listed control group. Self-report measures of depression, anxiety, and life quality were collected before, immediately after, and 6 months after the intervention. Significant differences among the three conditions emerged at post-intervention with medium to large effect sizes (Cohen's d between 0.45 and 1.89), but no differences between the R-CBT and C-CBT were found. However, the addition of religious components to CBT contributed to the initial treatment appeal for religious participants, thus increasing the treatment accessibility. |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 2% |
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