Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy
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Behav Cogn Psychother
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Behav Cogn Psychother · Mar 2012
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative StudyComparing two brief psychological interventions to usual care in panic disorder patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain.
Panic disorder (PD) is a common, often unrecognized condition among patients presenting with chest pain to the emergency departments (ED). Nevertheless, psychological treatment is rarely initiated. We are unaware of studies that evaluated the efficacy of brief cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for this population. ⋯ CBT-based interventions as brief as a single session initiated within 2 weeks after an ED visit for chest pain appear to be effective for PD. Given the high prevalence of PD in emergency care settings, greater efforts should be made to implement these interventions in the ED and/or primary care setting.