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Improvement in quality of life and sexual functioning in a comorbid sample after the unified protocol transdiagnostic group treatment
- Source :
- Journal of Psychiatric Research. 93:30-36
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Patients with multiple mental disorders often experience sexual dysfunction and reduced quality of life. The unified protocol (UP) is a transdiagnostic treatment for emotional disorders that has the potential to improve quality of life and sexual functioning via improved emotion management. The present study evaluates changes in quality of life and sexual functioning in a highly comorbid sample treated with the UP in a group format. Forty-eight patients were randomly assigned to either a UP active-treatment group or a medication-only control group. Treatment was delivered in 14 sessions over the course of 4 months. Symptoms of anxiety and depression were assessed using the Beck Anxiety Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory. Sexual functioning was assessed by the Arizona Sexual Experience Scale (ASEX), and quality of life was assessed by the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF scale (WHOQOL-BREF). Quality of life, anxiety and depression all significantly improved among participants treated with the UP. Some improvement in sexual functioning was also noted. The results support the efficacy of the UP in improving quality of life and sexual functioning in comorbid patients.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
050103 clinical psychology
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
Beck Anxiety Inventory
Statistics, Nonparametric
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life (healthcare)
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Quality (business)
Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological
Psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry
Depression (differential diagnoses)
media_common
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Depressive Disorder
05 social sciences
Beck Depression Inventory
Middle Aged
Anxiety Disorders
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Sexual dysfunction
Quality of Life
Anxiety
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Sexual function
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00223956
- Volume :
- 93
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Psychiatric Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4db05f80038958191b4061685b0780eb