A research group led by Professor Toshiaki Furukawa and Associate Professor Shiro Tanaka of the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University found that cognitive-behavioral therapy is as effective in severe depression as in mild depression.It turned out that the difference in effect between drug therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy was not as large as previously thought, and it became possible that cognitive-behavioral therapy would be a treatment option regardless of the severity of depression.
According to Kyoto University, cognitive-behavioral therapy can be consciously controlled to some extent by the person in four aspects: physical reaction to the event, cognition of how to think, emotions to the event, and behavior that actually occurs. A treatment that works on cognition and behavior.
The research group analyzed how effective cognitive-behavioral therapy is based on five studies conducted from 1989 to 2006 that have comparative data on the therapeutic effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy and placebo that does not contain the active ingredient. bottom.
The subjects were a total of 40 people, with an average age of around 509 years, 46 people with a certain severity and diagnosed with depression, and 555 people with a relatively milder and depressive dysthymia.
As a result, the number of treatment required (the number of people who need to be treated in order for one person to get the effect by treatment), which is an index of the therapeutic effect, is 1 for both severe and mild cognitive behavioral therapy, and the severity of cognitive behavioral therapy. It was found that the effect was the same regardless of.
In addition, commonly used antidepressants are 7-9.The difference between drug therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy was also not as great as previously thought.
