Sentences with phrase «nonspecific factors»

The CM condition provided a control for the frequency of research assessments, the passage of time, and nonspecific factors such as the coordination of emergency interventions by therapists and physicians.

Not exact matches

Although reanalysis of the available evidence is important, the ability to properly control for bias and confounding [factors that can influence outcomes] in observational studies is often limited, and without randomized controlled trials specifically designed to test the hypothesis, the issue of nonspecific effects of vaccines may remain subject to continuing debate.»

An innovative characteristic of this research was the development of the CTBE condition to control for nonspecific treatment factors of expert therapy.

These findings are also in line with other studies that have shown that chronic caregiver stress in the postpartum and early childhood period has been associated with persistent wheeze in early childhood4 as well as factors that may initiate or potentiate inflammation in the lung (eg, IgE expression, enhanced nonspecific and allergen - specific lymphocyte proliferation, differential cytokine expression).5, 7 Both persistent wheeze and atopy have been linked to reduced lung function in childhood.49 This cumulative stress model is particularly relevant given that maternal IPV may become a more direct stressor for toddlers who are witnessing violence against their mothers.50

Like other commonly used scales of nonspecific distress, the questions in the K10 / K6 scales all have high loadings on a first principal factor of nonspecific distress in factor analyses carried out in general population samples.8 This factor is indicated by a heterogeneous set of questions that define behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and psychophysiological manifestations of psychological distress.

The presentation will describe how the same core process occurs in a range of quite different - seeming therapies — such as AEDP, Coherence Therapy, EMDR, EFT, and IPNB — and will show why memory reconsolidation is poised to create four breakthroughs in the psychotherapy field: enhanced effectiveness, a unified understanding of diverse therapies of transformational change, clarification of the role of attachment in therapy, and an advance beyond nonspecific common factors theory in our understanding of the process of change.

Define specific factors in psychotherapy that have been shown to correlate with successful outcome more strongly than do the nonspecific common factors.