ArticleInternet interventions2026
Not just spontaneous remission: Time-dependent and independent effects in pre-intervention symptom reduction.
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Abstract
Psychological symptoms tend to change over time, even in the absence of clinical intervention. For example, self-ratings are often higher at screening compared to start of treatment. A plausible hypothesis is that this is due to patients' self-referring when their gradually fluctuating symptoms are worse than usual. That hypothesis predicts that patients that wait longer will have had longer time to return to their average symptom level. On the other hand, other processes related to measurement reactivity, contact with a clinician, or regression towards the mean, do not predict a time-dependent relationship. Our aim was to estimate the extent of this hypothesized symptom reduction in depression, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, health anxiety and insomnia (both total reduction and the relationship with time). The sample included adults (
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