Sentences with phrase «term effectiveness of treatments»

Research evidence suggests a short - term effectiveness of treatments such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), supportive psychotherapy, antidepressant drug therapy and a combination of CBT and antidepressant drug therapy for the treatment of depression in adolescents.

However, fears and the associated defensive behaviors resulting from that fear often return after they have been extinguished, undermining the long - term effectiveness of treatment.

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However, prior to this study there has been a lack of randomized controlled trials with a long - term follow - up that compare the effectiveness of noninvasive treatments.

A Swedish study that followed 583 individuals for up to 10 years shows a satisfactory long - term effectiveness of biologic treatments.

A 2013 paper in the same journal reported excellent vocal outcomes for the first 92 treated patients, but neither paper included the kind of follow - up data required to confirm the treatment's long - term effectiveness in curing the tumors.

Researchers have created a new drug delivery system that could improve the effectiveness of an emerging concept in cancer treatment — to dramatically slow and control tumors on a long - term, sustained basis, not necessarily aiming for their complete elimination.

Little evidence exists around long term post-partum complications, such as the prevalence of incontinence and the effectiveness of treatments such as pelvic floor exercises, state the authors.

Since then I've gotten on when... since I moved to the east coast to, you say, a more peaceful pursuits, where most of my research now deals with math biology in terms of helping doctors diagnose disease and evaluating the effectiveness of treatments of disease and I've recently done some work with an organization that uses statistics in order to improve what I would call the sanctity of [the] U.S. food supply.

An innovative experimental treatment for boosting the effectiveness of stem - cell transplants with umbilical cord blood has a favorable safety profile in long - term animal studies, report scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and Children's Hospital Boston (CHB).

There's the matter of legal ethics, whereby a sleepwalker who killed his father - in - law was acquitted of wrongdoing; the irony of sleeping pills whose effectiveness stems from their inducing short - term amnesia, thus helping you forget how much you actually tossed and turned all night; or the inventor of a highly successful treatment for sleep apnea, now patiently waiting for the Westernization of China to manifest itself in a king's ransom of obesity - related sleep disorders.

• Assisted customers in choice of department for laser treatment and guided them about package prices and payment methods • Maintained files of each customer in orderly fashion and updated all client data regularly in the computerized record system • Educated customers about laser treatment and its relative effectiveness as compared to other alternatives • Answered customer queries on phone • Obtained testimonials from satisfied customers and used them for projection of the institute • Coordinated and checked social services and insurance policies for coverage of therapy • Obtained and processed all customer payments and documented lease packages for long term therapy candidates

Although short term symptom management is important, the real test of treatment effectiveness in such disadvantaged populations is whether these changes hold up when support is removed.

There is a growing evidence base in support of the effectiveness of acupuncture for a range of musculoskeletal conditions11, 12; however, despite its widespread use by participants13 there has been limited evidence for acupuncture as an effective treatment option for depression.14 Patients with strong preferences for psychotherapy or counselling for depression are not likely to engage in antidepressant treatment, 15 yet the evidence for counselling as a treatment for depression is limited16 despite widespread utilisation in primary care in the UK, with around 90 % of general practices providing on - site counselling services.17 To address this evidence gap, a randomised controlled trial Acupuncture, Counselling or Usual Care for Depression (ACUDep) compared acupuncture or counselling to usual care as treatments for primary care patients with ongoing depression.18 The results showed that acupuncture and counselling were clinically effective in reducing depression in the short to medium term.

These authors effectively describe in lay terms how mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills augment the more traditional applications of cognitive behavioral therapy strategies in the treatment of anxiety.

Early treatment increases the effectiveness of interventions and reduces long - term costs.