Trial reportEvidence-based mental health2021
Development and validation of the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills Scale among college students.
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- Assessing the Efficacy of the INTELLECT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Mobile App for Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among At-Risk Japanese Employees: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Trial
- Cognitive behavioral therapy skills via a smartphone app for subthreshold depression among adults in the community: the RESiLIENT randomized controlled trial.Nature medicine · 2025Trial
- Long-Term Effects of Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Depression Prevention Among University Students: Randomized Controlled Factorial Trial.JMIR mental health · 2024Trial
- Optimizing smartphone psychotherapy for depressive symptoms in patients with cancer: Multiphase optimization strategy using a decentralized multicenter randomized clinical trial (J-SUPPORT 2001 Study).Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Trial
- A chatbot to improve adherence to internet-based cognitive-behavioural therapy among workers with subthreshold depression: a randomised controlled trial.BMJ mental health · 2024Trial
- Components of smartphone cognitive-behavioural therapy for subthreshold depression among 1093 university students: a factorial trial.Evidence-based mental health · 2022Trial
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- Smartphone based cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with no or minimal depressive symptoms in Japan: an exploratory secondary analysis of RESiLIENT trial.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Article
- Personalised & optimised therapy (POT) algorithm using five cognitive and behavioural skills for subthreshold depression.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Transdiagnostic Attentional Deficits Are Associated with Depressive and Externalizing Symptoms in Children and Adolescents with Neuropsychiatric Disorders.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025Article
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- Carpe diem.Evidence-based mental health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere are many different skill components used in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). However, there is currently no comprehensive way of measuring these skills in patients.
objectiveTo develop a comprehensive and brief measure of five main CBT skills: self-monitoring, behavioural activation, cognitive restructuring, assertiveness training and problem-solving.
methodsUniversity students (N=847) who participated in a fully factorial randomised controlled trial of smartphone CBT were assessed with the CBT Skills Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the Generalised Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and the short form of the Japanese Big Five Scale. Structural validity was estimated with exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and internal consistency evaluated with Cronbach's α coefficients. Construct validity was evaluated with the correlations between each factor of the CBT Skills Scale, the PHQ-9, the GAD-7 and the Big Five Scale.
findingsThe EFA supported a five-factor solution based on the original instruments assessing each CBT skill component. The CFA showed sufficient goodness-of-fit indices for the five-factor structure. The Cronbach's α of each factor was 0.75-0.81. Each CBT skills factor was specifically correlated to the PHQ-9, GAD-7, and the Big Five Scale.
conclusionsThe CBT Skills Scale has a stable structural validity and internal consistency with a five-factor solution and appropriate content validity concerning the relationship with depression, anxiety and personality. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: The CBT Skills Scale will be potential predictor and effect modifier in studying the optimisation of CBT interventions.
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