Trial reportJournal of clinical psychology2012
Specificity of effects of cognitive behavior therapy on coping, acceptance, and distress tolerance in a randomized controlled trial for smoking cessation.
Trial report in Journal of clinical psychology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Distress intolerance during smoking cessation treatment.Behaviour research and therapy · 2016Trial
- The effects of an anxiety sensitivity intervention on anxiety, depression, and worry: mediation through affect tolerances.Behaviour research and therapy · 2014Trial
- Tobacco Treatment Outcomes for Hospital Patients With and Without Mental Health Diagnoses.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Distress tolerance to auditory feedback and functional connectivity with the auditory cortex.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2018Article
- Assessing Patients' Cognitive Therapy Skills: Initial Evaluation of the Competencies of Cognitive Therapy Scale.Cognitive therapy and research · 2014Article
- Changes in distress intolerance and treatment outcome in a partial hospital setting.Behavior therapy · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectiveAlthough there is extensive evidence of the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), it is less certain what potential mechanisms of change are specifically affected by CBT interventions. This study was intended to test the specific effects of CBT on compensatory coping skills, acceptance, and distress tolerance or persistence.
methodUsing data from a randomized controlled trial of 8-session group CBT and a time-matched comparison condition for cigarette smokers, we evaluated CBT effects on compensatory coping skills, self-rated acceptance and behavioral markers of persistence and distress tolerance. Because depression proneness had moderated treatment response in the parent clinical trial (Kapson & Haaga, 2010), we tested not only main effects (CBT vs. comparison condition) but also moderated effects (treatment condition X depression proneness).
resultsCBT significantly improved compensatory coping skills only among the less depression-prone participants, who were the subset of smokers who did not benefit from CBT in terms of smoking cessation outcomes. There were no specific effects of CBT on acceptance or behavioral persistence.
conclusionsTo the extent that CBT had specific effects on compensatory coping skills, it was for the participants who did not benefit clinically from the intervention. Much more theory-driven research on multiple candidate change mechanisms is needed to clarify how effective and specific treatments have their effects, for either patients in general or subsets of patients as in moderated effects.
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