ReviewInternet interventions2022
Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral interventions to reduce elevated stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Influence of eHealth Stress Management Interventions on Psychological Health Parameters in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Do the effects of internet-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy (i-CBT) last after a year and beyond? A meta-analysis of 154 randomized controlled trials (RCTs).Clinical psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Early interventions for primary care patients with stress-related mental ill health: a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial of a nurse-led collaborative care intervention versus cognitive behavioural therapy.BMJ mental health · 2026Trial
- Behavior change intervention targeting physical activity and diet improves stress and sleep.PloS one · 2026Trial
- The effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on self-compassion and parent-child relationship quality in health caregivers.BMC psychology · 2025Trial
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of a 7-week minimal guided and unguided cognitive behavioral therapy-based stress-management APP for students.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Marital status and perceived stress in men with advanced prostate cancer: A randomized-controlled trial of cognitive behavioral stress management.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2023Trial
- Roles and therapeutic prospects of the laminin family in disorders of the nervous system.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- A culturally adapted mobile cognitive behavioral therapy for individuals with Hepatitis B on depression, anxiety and stress: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2025Article
- Web-Based Stress Management for Working Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Single-Arm, Open Pilot Trial.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Predicting Therapy Outcomes in Patients With Stress-Related Disorders: Protocol for a Predictive Modeling Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Engagement With an Internet-Administered, Guided, Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Parents of Children Treated for Cancer: Analysis of Log-Data From the ENGAGE Feasibility Trial.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
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- User Engagement in an Online Digital Health Intervention to Promote Problem Solving.Interacting with computers · 2024Article
- A blended intervention for adjustment disorder: Study protocol for a feasibility trial.Internet interventions · 2024Article
- Are web-based stress management interventions effective as an indirect treatment for depression? An individual participant data meta-analysis of six randomised trials.BMJ mental health · 2024Article
- Learning how to recover from stress: Results from an internet-based randomized controlled pilot trial.Internet interventions · 2023Article
- A psychometric evaluation of the Swedish translation of the Perceived Stress Scale: a Rasch analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Low-effort internet intervention to reduce students' stress delivered with Meta's Messenger chatbot (Stressbot): A randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2023Article
- Improving mental well-being in psychocardiology-a feasibility trial for a non-blended web application as a brief metacognitive-based intervention in cardiovascular disease patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most promising treatment to reduce stress, but access to CBT is limited. Internet-delivered CBT (ICBT) enables large-scale dissemination at low costs. Evidence suggests that ICBT can reduce stress in subclinical and mixed diagnostic samples, but less is known about the effect of ICBT in targeted samples suffering from elevated perceived stress or stress-related disorders. Objective: To investigate the efficacy of ICBT specifically aimed at reducing stress in adults with elevated perceived stress or stress-related disorders. Methods: We searched for randomized controlled trials comparing ICBT with a control group in PubMed, Web of Science, and PsycInfo between 2010 and 2021. A meta-analysis of 14 comparisons (total Results: The pooled mean effect size for self-rated stress at posttest was Conclusions: Results provide evidence of the efficacy of ICBT to reduce stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in adults suffering from elevated stress or stress-related disorders. Findings have important implications for the development of safe and evidence-based treatment guidelines in the face of a rapid digital expansion.This study was preregistered at Open Science Framework (osf.io) with DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/BQAZ3.
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