Trial reportBehavioural and cognitive psychotherapy2019
Attentional Control as a Predictor of Response to Psychological Treatment for Depression and Relapse up to 1 year After Treatment: A Pilot Cohort Study.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Life events and treatment prognosis for depression: A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Psychological interventions to prevent relapse in anxiety and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Long-term depressive symptom trajectories and related baseline characteristics in primary care patients: Analysis of the PsicAP clinical trial.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024Trial
- Development of a baseline battery to optimize depression treatment assignment in primary care: Balancing breadth and brevity.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Remission is insufficient: predictors and mechanistic models of recurrence in late-life depression.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Long-term depressive symptoms trajectories following CBT delivered in primary care compared to usual treatment.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
- Understanding the psychological therapy treatment outcomes for young adults who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET), moderators of outcomes, and what might be done to improve them.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Improvement in IAPT outcomes over time: are they driven by changes in clinical practice?Cognitive behaviour therapist · 2020Article
- One Step Ahead-Attention Control Capabilities at Baseline Are Associated With the Effectiveness of the Attention Training Technique.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Latent variable mixture modelling and individual treatment prediction.Behaviour research and therapy · 2020Article
- Trajectories of depression and anxiety symptom change during psychological therapy.Journal of affective disorders · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundIdentifying depressed patients unlikely to reach remission and those likely to relapse after reaching remission is of great importance, but there are few pre-treatment factors that can help clinicians predict prognosis and together these explain relatively little variance in treatment outcomes. Attentional control has shown promise in studies to date, but has not been investigated prospectively in routine clinical settings with depressed patients.
aimsThis study aimed to pilot the use of a brief self-report measure of attentional control in routine care and investigate the associations between attentional control, psychological treatment response and relapse to depression up to 1 year post-treatment.
methodDepressed patients were recruited from two primary care psychological treatment (IAPT) services and completed the Attentional Control Scale (ACS) alongside routine symptom measures at every therapy session. Participants were tracked and followed up for 1 year post-treatment.
resultsBaseline ACS scores were associated with remission and residual depressive symptoms post-treatment, and relapse within 12 months of ending treatment, all independent of pre-treatment depressive symptom severity, and the latter also independent of residual symptoms.
conclusionA self-report measure of attentional control can potentially be used to predict levels of depressive symptoms post-treatment and can contribute to predicting risk of relapse to depression in IAPT services, without affecting rates of therapy completion/drop-out or data completion of standard IAPT measures. However, this pilot study had a small overall sample size and a very small number of observed relapses, so replication in a larger study is needed before firm conclusions can be made.
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