By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today
Published: April 07, 2009WHEELING, W.Va., April 7 -- Cognitive behavioral therapy in a primary care setting relieved several aspects of generalized anxiety disorder in older patients, researchers found in a randomized trial.
Compared with a beefed-up version of usual care, patients who underwent three months of cognitive behavior therapy showed more improvement in worry severity, general mental health, and depressive symptoms, reported Melinda A. Stanley, Ph.D., of Baylor College of Medicine, and colleagues.
The improvements were maintained for a year afterward, they reported in the April 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
They acknowledged, however, that no significant difference was seen between treatments in an overall measure of generalized anxiety disorder.....
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