Publication date: Jul 10, 2023
COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase of remote treatments, such as telephone-delivery cognitive behavioral therapy (T-CBT). To our knowledge, no meta-analyses studied the effect of T-CBT in chronic and/or mental illnesses on multiple psychological outcomes. Therefore, our study aims to evaluating the efficacy of T-CBT compared to other interventions (treatment as usual, TAU, or face-to-face CBT). Each effect size (ES) was calculated in Hedges’ g and pooled together to produce a mean ES for each outcome (depression, anxiety, mental and physical QoL, worry, coping, and sleep disturbances). The meta-analysis included 33 studies with a randomized controlled trial design. A large ES was found when comparing the efficacy of T-CBT against TAU on depression (g = 0. 84, p
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Large | cognitive behavioral therapy |
| Pandemic | efficacy |
| Sleep | meta-analysis |
| Telephone | |
| Therapy |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | chronic illnesses |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 pandemic |
| disease | MESH | mental illnesses |