ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
The Bergen 4-Day Treatment for Panic Disorder: A Pilot Study.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Motivation in the Bergen 4-day treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Treatment expectancy and credibility as predictors of concentrated exposure treatment outcomes in patients with difficult-to-treat obsessive-compulsive disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Concentrated ERP for Patients With Difficult-to-Treat OCD: Insight as a Predictor of Acute and Long-Term Outcomes.Depression and anxiety · 2025Trial
- The Bergen 4-day treatment for social anxiety disorder: a pilot study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Trial
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- The Bergen 4-day treatment for panic disorder: replication and implementation in a new clinic.BMC psychiatry · 2022Trial
- Concentrated transdiagnostic and cross-disciplinary group treatment for patients with depression and with anxiety: a pilot study.BMC psychiatry · 2022Trial
- Brief treatments for panic disorder: a pilot study of the bergen repeated one-session treatment format.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- The bergen 4-day treatment for panic disorder: a longer-term follow-up.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Bergen 4-Day Treatment for panic disorder patients in a rural clinical setting: a long-term follow-up study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Bergen 4-day treatment for panic disorder: adapting to COVID-19 restrictions with a hybrid approach of face-to-face and videoconference modalities.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- A safe and effective micro-choice based rehabilitation for patients with long COVID: results from a quasi-experimental study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Bergen 4-day treatment for panic disorder: implementation in a rural clinical setting.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- A digital Norwegian version of the client satisfaction questionnaire 8: factor validity and internal reliability in outpatient mental health care.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- The Bergen 4-Day Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Does It Work in a New Clinical Setting?Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The current article reports on the findings from a pilot treatment study on panic disorder (PD) with or without agoraphobia. Consecutively referred patients were included and treated with the Bergen 4-day treatment format. Twenty-nine patients were included, primarily from unsuccessful treatment courses in the Norwegian specialist mental health care system, either ongoing or previously. Prior to treatment, only 34% were able to work but at 3-month follow-up 93% were able to do so. The proportion achieving reliable change on the panic severity measure was 76% post-treatment and 90% at follow-up. The remission rate was 72% at both assessments. These effects are significantly higher than those reported for six standard CBT studies in the literature using the same primary outcome measure (Panic Disorder Severity Scale). It is concluded that the Bergen 4-day treatment is a promising treatment approach for PD, and a randomized controlled trial is warranted.
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