SynthesisJournal of psychosomatic research2020
Interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms induced by medical events: A systematic review.
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- Efficacy of interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms induced by traumatic medical events: a systematic review.Health psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Guidelines for Enhanced Recovery After Trauma and Intensive Care (ERATIC): Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) and International Association for Trauma Surgery and Intensive Care (IATSIC) Society Recommendations: Part 3: Trauma Ethics and Systems Aspects.World journal of surgery · 2025Guideline
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment in the medical setting: a systematic review.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Pooled it
- Psychological interventions with older adults during inpatient postacute rehabilitation: A systematic review.Rehabilitation psychology · 2021Pooled it
- EMDR in Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Exploring cardiac-related PTSD symptoms in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators: protocol for an open-label trial of written exposure therapy and qualitative study.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Post-traumatic stress disorder in intensive care survivors.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2025Article
- Stoma Acceptance Mediates Body Image Distress and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life: A Single-Center Study on Radical Cystectomy Patients with Ureterostomy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Clinical Education: Addressing Prior Trauma and Its Impacts in Medical Settings.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2024Review
- The Brain-Heart Axis: An Umbrella Review on Impact of Psychiatric Disease on Incidence, Management, and Outlook of Cardiovascular Disease.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing for survivors of life-threatening medical events.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Article
- Strategies to Improve Patient-Centered Care for Drug Use-Associated Infective Endocarditis: JACC Focus Seminar 2/4.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2024Review
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- A randomised pilot feasibility study of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing recent traumatic episode protocol, to improve psychological recovery following intensive care admission for COVID-19.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2023Article
- EMDR for symptoms of depression, stress and burnout in health care workers exposed to COVID-19 (HARD): A study protocol for a trial within a cohort study.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Mobile cognitive behavioral therapy for posttraumatic stress: Diving back in after hematopoietic stem cell transplant.Psycho-oncology · 2022Article
- Four-symptom model of medical-related posttraumatic stress among adult cancer patients.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2022Article
- Posttraumatic stress and medication adherence in pediatric transplant recipients.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022Article
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- Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms and Serotonin Transporter (5-HTTLPR) Polymorphism in Breast Cancer Patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveMedical events such as myocardial infarction and cancer diagnosis can induce symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The optimal treatment of PTSD symptoms in this context is unknown.
methodsA literature search of 6 biomedical electronic databases was conducted from database inception to November 2018. Studies were eligible if they used a randomized design and evaluated the effect of treatments on medical event-induced PTSD symptoms in adults. A random effects model was used to pool data when two or more comparable studies were available.
resultsSix trials met full inclusion criteria. Studies ranged in size from 21 to 81 patients, and included patients with PTSD induced by cardiac events, cancer, HIV, multiple sclerosis, and stem cell transplantation. All trials assessed psychological interventions. Two trials comparing a form of exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with assessment-only control found that CBT resulted in lower PTSD symptoms [Hedges's g = -0.47, (95% CI -0.82 - -0.12), p = .009]. A third trial compared imaginal exposure (another form of exposure-based CBT) with an attention control and found a trend toward reduced PTSD symptoms. Three trials compared eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) with active psychological treatments (imaginal exposure, conventional CBT, and relaxation therapy), and found that EMDR was more effective.
conclusionCBT and EMDR may be promising approaches to reducing PTSD symptoms due to medical events. However, additional trials are needed in this patient population.
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