Trial reportJournal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry2017
Do improved patient recall and the provision of memory support enhance treatment adherence?
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Optimizing outcomes, mechanisms, and recall of Cognitive Therapy for depression: Dose of constructive memory support strategies.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Trial
- Serial Mediators of Memory Support Strategies Used With Cognitive Therapy for Depression: Improving Outcomes Through Patient Adherence and Treatment Skills.Behavior therapy · 2023Trial
- Patient recall of specific cognitive therapy contents predicts adherence and outcome in adults with major depressive disorder.Behaviour research and therapy · 2017Trial
- The impact of memory support strategies on patient recall for treatment content in individuals with and without cognitive impairment.Research square · 2026Article
- Maximizing benefits from evidence-based psychological treatments: Memory support and habit formation as key strategies.Behaviour research and therapy · 2025Review
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- Effectiveness of Therapeutic Exercise and Patient Education on Cancer-Related Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Randomised, Single-Blind, Controlled Trial with a 6-Month Follow-Up.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Does information structuring improve recall of discharge information? A cluster randomized clinical trial.PloS one · 2021Article
- Neurocognitive Predictors of Treatment Outcomes in Cognitive Processing Therapy for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Study Protocol.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Client memory and learning of treatment contents: An experimental study of intervention strategies and relationship to outcome in a brief treatment for procrastination.Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry · 2020Article
- The effect of the Continuous Care Model on treatment adherence in patients with myocardial infarction: a randomised controlled trial.Journal of research in nursing : JRN · 2020Article
- The role of knowledge in internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for adolescent depression: Results from a randomised controlled study.Internet interventions · 2019Article
- Memory creation and modification: Enhancing the treatment of psychological disorders.The American psychologist · 2018Review
- Sleep the night before and after a treatment session: A critical ingredient for treatment adherence?Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesPatient adherence to psychosocial treatment is an important but understudied topic. The aim of this study was to examine whether better patient recall of treatment contents and therapist use of memory support (MS) were associated with better treatment adherence.
methodsData were drawn from a pilot randomized controlled trial. Participants were 48 individuals (mean age = 44.27 years, 29 females) with Major Depressive Disorder randomized to receive either Cognitive Therapy (CT) with an adjunctive Memory Support Intervention (CT + Memory Support) or CT-as-usual. Therapist and patient ratings of treatment adherence were collected during each treatment session. Patient recall was assessed at mid-treatment. Therapist use of MS was manually coded for a random selection of sessions.
resultsPatient recall was significantly associated with better therapist and patient ratings of adherence. Therapist use of Application, a specific MS strategy, predicted higher therapist ratings of adherence. Attention Recruitment, another specific MS strategy, appeared to attenuate the positive impact of session number on patient ratings of adherence. Treatment groups, MS summary scores and other specific MS strategies were not significantly associated with adherence. LIMITATIONS: The measure for treatment adherence is in the process of being formally validated. Results were based on small sample.
conclusionsThese results support the importance of patient recall in treatment adherence. Although collectively the effects of MS on treatment adherence were not significant, the results support the use of certain specific MS strategy (i.e., application) as a potential pathway to improve treatment adherence. Larger-scale studies are needed to further examine these constructs.
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