Trial reportJournal of affective disorders2023
Randomized trial of brief interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for depression delivered both in-person and by telehealth.
Trial report in Journal of affective disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03594773 (Dyadic Behavior Informatics for Psychotherapy Process and Outcome), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Dyadic Behavior Informatics for Psychotherapy Process and Outcome
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Therapeutic alliance across delivery modalities: a systematic narrative review of alliance strength and outcome prediction in face-to-face, online, and blended psychotherapy.Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B · 2026Pooled it
- Next-Generation Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Integrating Digital Tools, Teletherapy, and Personalization for Enhanced Mental Health Outcomes.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Depression in Parkinson's Disease: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025Trial
- Protocol for a randomized trial to predict the efficacy of cognitive and behavioral interventions for symptoms of depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Group-Based Suicide Safety Planning for Veterans with High Suicide Risk Via In-Person and Telehealth Delivery.Journal of technology in behavioral science · 2026Article
- Dynamic and dyadic relationships between facial behavior, working alliance, and treatment outcomes during depression therapy.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Testing the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Potential Efficacy of an Innovative Digital Mental Health Care Delivery Model Designed to Increase Access to Care: Open Trial of the Digital Clinic.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
- Tailoring interpersonal psychotherapy to psycho-oncology patients (TIPTOP): feasibility study protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mindfulness in Pregnancy and Postpartum: Protocol of a Pilot Randomized Trial of Virtually Delivered Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Promote Well-Being during the Perinatal Period.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Representation Learning for Interpersonal and Multimodal Behavior Dynamics: A Multiview Extension of Latent Change Score Models.Proceedings of the ... ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. ICMI (Conference) · 2023Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundExpert consensus guidelines recommend Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), interventions that were historically delivered face-to-face, as first-line treatments for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Despite the ubiquity of telehealth following the COVID-19 pandemic, little is known about differential outcomes with CBT versus IPT delivered in-person (IP) or via telehealth (TH) or whether working alliance is affected.
methodsAdults meeting DSM-5 criteria for MDD were randomly assigned to either 8 sessions of IPT or CBT (group). Mid-trial, COVID-19 forced a change of therapy delivery from IP to TH (study phase). We compared changes in Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD-17) and Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) scores for individuals by group and phase: CBT-IP (n = 24), CBT-TH (n = 11), IPT-IP (n = 25) and IPT-TH (n = 17).
resultsHRSD-17 scores declined significantly from pre to post treatment (pre: M = 17.7, SD = 4.4 vs. post: M = 11.7, SD = 5.9; p < .001; d = 1.45) without significant group or phase effects. WAI scores did not differ by group or phase. Number of completed therapy sessions was greater for TH (M = 7.8, SD = 1.2) relative to IP (M = 7.2, SD = 1.6) (Mann-Whitney U = 387.50, z = -2.24, p = .025). LIMITATIONS: Participants were not randomly assigned to IP versus TH. Sample size is small.
conclusionsThis study provides preliminary evidence supporting the efficacy of both brief IPT and CBT, delivered by either TH or IP, for depression. It showed that working alliance is preserved in TH, and delivery via TH may improve therapy adherence. Prospective, randomized controlled trials are needed to definitively test efficacy of brief IPT and CBT delivered via TH versus IP.
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