Trial reportThe British journal of clinical psychology2025
Training emotion recognition in depression-An experimental study.
Trial report in The British journal of clinical psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Impact VR: Building Socioemotional Resilience in Youth with Conduct Disorder.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Trial
- Training emotion recognition in depression-An experimental study.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- Relationships between depression and difficulties in emotion regulation among first-year college students: a network analysis approach.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatients with depression often show a reduced emotion recognition ability (ERA), which is considered to contribute to interpersonal difficulties and thereby to the development and maintenance of the disorder. In light of the lack of experimental studies testing this hypothesis, the present study investigated whether a single session of computerized training can enhance ERA in patients with depression and whether this affects interpersonal problems and symptoms of depression.
methodsForty outpatients with major depressive disorder or persistent depressive disorder were randomly assigned to a single session of either computerized training of ERA (TERA) or a sham training. One day prior to and 14 days after training, ERA, interpersonal problems and symptoms of depression were recorded.
resultsBoth groups showed significant improvements in ERA and in symptoms of depression. Participants who received TERA showed greater improvements in ERA than participants who received sham training. However, the groups did not differ regarding changes in symptoms of depression, and none of the groups showed significant changes in interpersonal problems.
conclusionsA single session of computerized training can effectively improve ERA in patients with depression. In the short term, however, TERA neither affected interpersonal problems nor symptoms of depression.
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