Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) is one of the most important methodologies for evaluating client progress and improving the efficiency and quality of psychological assistance. Despite this, the culture of ROM use is struggling to establish itself in the Italian National Health System, shaping up as a sporadic and unevenly used practice. The main objective of the present study was to assess the frequency of use of different outcome monitoring measures and the attitudes toward ROM within psychological services of the Italian National Health System. The study involved 184 psychotherapist (75% female and 25% male) employed in the Italian Health System structures. Participants completed an anonymous questionnaire composed by Outcome monitoring use and Attitudes to ROM. The data reveal a general low-frequency in ROM use, with the exception of the symptom monitoring measures. In our sample, the variables that significantly affect the level of ROM use are psychological capability and physical and social opportunity. The present study provides some empirical evidence to reflect on the importance of increasing the use of ROM within psychological services and to promote interventions to improve clinicians' positive attitudes toward ROM.
常规结果监测（ROM）是评估客户进展、提高心理援助效率和质量的最重要方法之一。尽管如此，ROM 的使用文化仍在意大利国家医疗系统中艰难地建立起来，成为一种零星的、使用不均衡的做法。本研究的主要目的是评估意大利国家医疗系统心理服务部门使用不同结果监测措施的频率以及对 ROM 的态度。这项研究涉及 184 名受雇于意大利卫生系统机构的心理治疗师（75% 为女性，25% 为男性）。参与者填写了一份匿名问卷，内容包括结果监测的使用情况和对 ROM 的态度。数据显示，除症状监测措施外，ROM的使用频率普遍较低。在我们的样本中，对 ROM 使用水平有重大影响的变量是心理能力以及身体和社会机会。本研究提供了一些实证证据，以反思在心理服务中增加使用 ROM 的重要性，并促进采取干预措施，改善临床医生对 ROM 的积极态度。
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Laura Vilela e Souza, Letícia Trombini Vidotto, João Tiago Oliveira, João Batista, Miguel M. Gonçalves
The growing demand for mental health services, exacerbated by long waiting lists and high psychotherapy dropout rates, highlights the urgent need for brief and effective approaches. The aim of this study was to analyse the presence and impact of change markers in online narrative single-session therapy (NSST) and a change interview 1 month later. The change markers were coded in the NSST and the interview via the innovative moments (IMs) coding system. This coding system allows the identification of IMs (i.e., change markers), differentiating them into three levels of complexity (from lower complexity, Level 1, to the highest complexity, Level 3). Good and poor outcomes were categorized on the basis of the change in presession distress to the distress reported 1 month later at the change interview. Previous research has associated IMs with therapy outcomes, mostly with Level 2 and 3 IMs. In this study, more IMs emerged in the NSSTs of clients with good outcomes. The Level 3 IMs did not emerge in the NSST and only emerged in the change interview. There was a positive correlation between the decrease in distress and the emergence of Level 3 IMs in the change interview. The pattern of the relationship between the IMs in NSST and those in the change interview suggests that, in good outcome cases, there is a positive evolution in the emergence of change markers. These results demonstrate that IMs are produced in NSST, as occurs in regular psychotherapy, and suggest that the change initiated in a single session is expanded until the change interview for good outcome cases. The clinical implications of this study are discussed.
心理健康服务的需求与日俱增，而漫长的候诊时间和较高的心理治疗辍学率又加剧了这种情况，因此迫切需要简短而有效的方法。本研究旨在分析在线叙事单次治疗（NSST）和一个月后的变化访谈中变化标记的存在及其影响。通过创新时刻（IMs）编码系统对 NSST 和访谈中的变化标记进行编码。该编码系统可识别创新时刻（即变化标记），并将其分为三个复杂程度（从较低复杂程度的第 1 级到最高复杂程度的第 3 级）。根据治疗前的痛苦与 1 个月后在变化访谈中报告的痛苦之间的变化，对良好和不良结果进行分类。以往的研究将即时信息与治疗结果联系起来，其中大部分是 2 级和 3 级即时信息。在本研究中，疗效较好的求助者的 NSST 中出现了更多的 IM。三级即时信息没有出现在国家测试中，只出现在改变访谈中。在改变访谈中，困扰的减少与第 3 级 IM 的出现呈正相关。国家健康测试中的 IM 与变化访谈中的 IM 之间的关系模式表明，在结果良好的案例中，变化标记的出现呈正向发展。这些结果表明，在 NSST 中会产生 IMs，就像在常规心理治疗中发生的一样，并表明在单次治疗中启动的改变在结果良好的案例中会扩展到改变访谈中。本文讨论了这项研究的临床意义。
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X. Sanz-Sendra, J. Mora-Ascó, B. Gallego-Hernández de Tejada, J. H. Marco, S. Pérez Rodríguez
Introduction
Recent research shows that there has been a decrease in meaning in life and an increase in hopelessness and nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents after the pandemic. The present study aims to address three objectives: (1) to compare the frequency, types and functions of nonsuicidal self-injury before and after the pandemic, (2) to explore the relationship between meaning in life, hopelessness and nonsuicidal self-injury and (3) to study differences in nonsuicidal self-injury, meaning in life and hopelessness levels before and following the pandemic.
Methods
This research was conducted in a community sample of N = 3800 Spanish participants, including n = 1733 from the pre-pandemic period and n = 2067 from the post-pandemic period. Ages ranged between 11 and 19, and the average age was 14.87 (SD = 1.58). The sample had an equal distribution by gender, with 50.5% females (n = 1919) and 49.5% males (n = 1881). Standardized tests such as ISAS-II, BHS and PIL-10 were used, as well as descriptive statistics, Spearman correlations and non-parametric ANCOVAs of Quade controlling for age and gender to compare pre- and post-pandemic variables.
Results
The results revealed a significant increase in the number of functions of nonsuicidal self-injury, in the methods employed and in the levels of hopelessness, along with a notable decrease in meaning in life after the pandemic. However, the estimated prevalence of pre- and post-pandemic nonsuicidal self-injury remained similar. The estimated lifetime prevalence of NSSI was 24.9% (n = 432) before the pandemic and 19.4% (n = 401) after the pandemic. A positive correlation between nonsuicidal self-injury and hopelessness and a negative correlation with meaning in life were observed.
Conclusions
These findings indicate that the pandemic influenced the mental health of young Spaniards and suggest it may be useful to incorporate meaning-centred interventions in protocols to address nonsuicidal self-injury and hopelessness in adolescent populations.
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Saga Berglund, Anna Danielsson, Siri Jakobsson Støre, Diogo Carreiras, Sérgio A. Carvalho, Michaela Blomqvist-Storm, Helena Pinto, Lara Palmeira, Marco Pereira, Inês A. Trindade
Individuals with chronic illnesses and those infected with SARS-CoV-2 often face stigma, shame, and psychological distress related to their conditions. Higher psychological flexibility and self-compassion are often associated with less stigma and shame. Examining and comparing these experiences between people with chronic illness and people who have recovered from SARS-CoV-2 can provide valuable insights into the shared and unique challenges they encounter. This study aimed to compare these two groups, and used structural equation modelling to investigate the links between stigma, shame, and psychological distress, with a focus on the mediating roles of psychological flexibility and self-compassion in these associations. The study included 270 Portuguese participants (chronic illness: n = 104; SARS-CoV-2: n = 166), with an average age of 36.73 years and 86.6% of the sample being women. Results showed that the chronic illness subgroup reported higher levels of illness stigma, anxiety, and depression, compared to the SARS-CoV-2 subgroup. Findings from the mediation analysis, revealed that the model fit exceptionally well, accounting for 48% of the variance in anxiety and 45% in depression symptoms across the entire sample. Most parameters were consistent between the two subgroups, except for the association between self-compassion and depression symptoms, which was only statistically significant in the chronic illness subgroup. In this group, both psychological flexibility and self-compassion mediated the association between stigma and shame with symptoms of anxiety and depression. In the SARS-CoV-2 subgroup, these processes mediated the association with anxiety, whereas psychological flexibility only mediated depression symptoms. The findings from this study provide directions for future research on the possible development or refinement of personalized psychological interventions targeting emotional distress in adults with chronic illnesses and viral disease recovery cohorts.
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As nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has become an increasing public health concern, the last few years have seen the emergence of efforts to address NSSI recovery. Although many recovery efforts adopt a medical view of self-injury and focus on cessation of the behaviour, recovery can mean many different things to different people. In this study, we provide initial empirical validation of the self-injury recovery framework, by assessing whether different recovery profiles exist.
Methods
Our sample comprised 733 participants with lived experience of NSSI (M age = 24.54, sd = 6.39). Participants completed self-report measures of constructs related to NSSI recovery and NSSI characteristics.
Results
Using latent profile analysis, we identified six unique profiles reflecting differences in thoughts/urges to self-injure, self-efficacy, social support, optimism, coping, underlying adversities, perceptions of scarring, disclosure, resilience and self-compassion. Multivariate analyses of variance confirmed these profiles differed according to NSSI characteristics such as frequency of NSSI, a self-assessment of recovery, the desire to self-injure or avoid self-injury and the number of people disclosed to.
Limitations
A homogenous sample and cross-sectional design limit generalisability of our findings across populations and across time.
Conclusions
Our findings reinforce that recovery can take many different forms, with different factors being relevant to different individuals. Adopting a person-centred approach that centres an individual's lived experience and emphasises what is important to them in the recovery process offers opportunities for more empathic responses to self-injury and better outcomes for individuals who self-injure.
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Giovanni Mansueto, Sara Palmieri, Gabriele Caselli, Marcantonio M. Spada
Introduction
Using the self-regulatory executive function model as a basis, this study explored whether, among substance users, metacognitive beliefs and repetitive negative thinking were associated with impulsiveness.
Methods
A total of 100 substance users were recruited. Impulsiveness, metacognitive beliefs, rumination and worry were assessed. Correlation and hierarchal regression analyses were run.
Results
Beliefs about the need to control thoughts, lower cognitive self-consciousness and brooding rumination were found to be independent predictors of the total score on impulsiveness in the hierarchical regression analysis. Further regression analyses indicated that motor impulsiveness was predicted by a combination of beliefs about the need to control thoughts and brooding rumination, while non-planning impulsiveness was predicted by beliefs about the need to control thoughts and lower cognitive self-consciousness.
Conclusion
Among substance users, higher impulsiveness is associated with the tendency to endorse beliefs about the need to control thoughts and brooding rumination. Among substance users, beliefs about the need to control thoughts and brooding rumination (and potentially cognitive self-consciousness) could be a suitable therapeutic targets to mitigate particularly motor impulsiveness and non-planning impulsiveness.
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Mariana Branquinho, Maria Cristina Canavarro, Ana Fonseca
Objectives
This pilot randomized controlled trial evaluated the acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a blended cognitive behavioural intervention—combination of a web-based program and sessions with a psychologist (intervention group)—compared to a guided web-based intervention (active control group) for the treatment of postpartum depression.
Methods
Adult Portuguese women in the postpartum period (up to 12 months) presenting clinically relevant depressive symptoms were considered eligible. Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention group (n = 17) or the control group (n = 17) and completed self-report questionnaires at baseline, post-intervention and at 3-month follow-up.
Results
In both arms, dropout rates were low, and participants considered the treatment acceptable and useful. Mixed ANOVAs revealed a significant reduction in depressive symptoms and improvements in secondary outcomes (anxiety, negative thoughts, emotion regulation, self-compassion and psychological flexibility) from baseline to post-intervention in both groups. No time × group interactions were found. A significant clinical change in depressive symptoms was observed in more than 80% of the participants in both groups. Significant associations were observed among therapeutic alliance and depressive symptoms.
Conclusions
The results of our study support the acceptability, usability and preliminary effects on postpartum depression of both interventions and highlight the important role of therapist support in blended and guided web-based interventions.
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This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of mindfulness meditation on sleep quality and negative emotions in patients with stroke with concurrent coronary heart disease.
Methods
This study was a randomised controlled trial. A total of 72 patients with stroke with concurrent coronary heart disease were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, with 36 patients in each group. The control group received routine treatment plus eszopiclone tablets at a dosage of 3 mg once daily. The observation group received mindfulness meditation in addition to the treatment given to the control group. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index was used to assess sleep status, the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and Self-Rating Depression Scale were used to assess depression and anxiety, and the Fugl–Meyer Assessment was used to assess motor function. All participants in both groups received a 6-week intervention.
Results
Pairwise comparisons revealed that the observation group had better outcomes in sleep quality, sleep onset latency, sleep duration, sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, daytime function and total scores at both 6 and 12 weeks compared with the control group (p < 0.05). After 12 weeks of intervention, compared with the control group, the total score of sleep quality improved more significantly (9.22 ± 2.35/6.26 ± 2.47). Additionally, different treatment methods had varying effects on anxiety scores, depression scores and motor function scores between the two groups (p < 0.001). Further comparisons showed that the observation group had lower anxiety and depression scores and higher motor function scores at both 6 and 12 weeks compared with the control group (p < 0.05).
Conclusion
Mindfulness meditation can effectively improve sleep quality and reduce negative emotions in patients with stroke with concurrent coronary heart disease, as well as promote the recovery of limb functions.
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Traumatic death is a risk factor for prolonged grief. Network analysis offers a perspective for understanding traumatic bereavement at a symptom interaction level. This study estimates regularized partial correlation grief networks for bereavement due to earthquake (n = 818) and illness (n = 237), using symptoms from the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG) as the nodes. Difficulty in accepting death and loneliness were highly central nodes in both networks. Trust difficulties and longing for the deceased exhibited high centrality in the earthquake-bereaved sample but not in the illness-bereaved sample. The earthquake bereavement network was characterized by high connectivity and a diversity of central symptoms. These results provide insights into understanding the severity of grief after a traumatic loss. Although promoting the integration of the reality of loss and alleviating loneliness is important, it might also be worth considering the role of post-loss interpersonal trust and the distress associated with longing for the deceased for traumatic bereavement.
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Judith Luijkx, Linda M A van Loon, Brenda De Wit-De Visser, Arno van Dam
This cross-sectional study investigated the relationship between the presence and impact of ACEs with both reactive and proactive aggression, and the possible moderating role of mentalization (operationalized as reflective functioning) in these expected relationships. Sixty-five inpatient and outpatient adults with any kind of antisocial behaviour completed the Dutch version of the Traumatic Experiences Checklist, the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire, and the Adult Attachment Interview with the use of the Reflective Functioning Scale. Preliminary analysis showed a remarkably high level of ACEs, and a relatively high reported impact of these experiences. We found a positive relationship between the total presence of ACEs (including childhood maltreatment and adverse household factors), and both reactive and proactive aggression. We also found positive relationships between the experienced impact of these ACEs and both reactive and proactive aggression. Regarding childhood maltreatment in family of origin, we did not find a correlation between the presence of these experiences and respectively reactive and proactive aggression. However, we found a correlation between the impact of childhood maltreatment and reactive aggression. These results suggest that in addition to the cumulative experience of ACEs, the subjective burden of these experiences on individuals must not be underestimated in case of aggression. Additional moderation analysis showed no differences in these relationships in case of less developed versus medium-high developed reflective functioning. The findings substantiate the importance of early prevention and treatment programs with focus on ACEs to possibly reduce aggression.
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