Better patient knowledge and worse treatment outcome after written patient information in inpatient cognitive behaviour therapy as compared to non-informed patients

Michael Linden,Janice Wasilewski,Josef Brockmann

doi:10.1080/23311908.2019.1612825

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Patient information and education is an important task in medicine in general and psychotherapy in particular. This can be done verbally but also by written materials (bibliotherapy). Cognitive beh...

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There is a general consensus that patients have to be informed about their illness, treatment options, and prognosis
The present study shows that effective patient information and better health knowledge do not necessarily correspond with a better patient–therapist interaction and treatment outcome
Patient information or education can be done by therapists personally or by written material, i.e. bibliotherapy (Grahlmann & Linden, 2005)

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There is a general consensus that patients have to be informed about their illness, treatment options, and prognosis. This is important to allow an informed decision-making and to improve patient cooperation. Patient information or education can be done by therapists personally or by written material, i.e. bibliotherapy (Grahlmann & Linden, 2005). There are comparisons of bibliotherapy with therapist applied cognitive therapy. Some researcher reported less or equal effects (Floyd et al, 2006; Rohde, Stice, Shaw, & Gau, 2015) while others showed that cognitive behaviour therapy is more effective than bibliotherapy (Högdahl, Birgegard, & Björck, 2013; Rohde et al, 2015)

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