Initial Outcomes of Transdiagnostic Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Tailored to Public Safety Personnel: Longitudinal Observational Study

Date

2021-05

Authors

Hadjistavropoulos, Heather, D.
McCall, Hugh, C.
Thiessen, David, L.
Huang, Ziyin
Carleton, R. Nicholas
Dear, Blake, F.
Titov, Nickolai

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Publisher

JMIR Publications

Abstract

Background: Canadian public safety personnel (PSP) experience high rates of mental health disorders and face many barriers to treatment. Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) overcomes many such barriers, and is effective for treating depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms.

Description

©Heather D Hadjistavropoulos, Hugh C McCall, David L Thiessen, Ziyin Huang, R Nicholas Carleton, Blake F Dear, Nickolai Titov. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (https://www.jmir.org), 05.05.2021. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.

Keywords

internet, cognitive behavior therapy, anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, public safety personnel, CBT, internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy, ICBT, PTSD, outcome, diagnosis, longitudinal, observational, Literature, effectiveness

Citation

Hadjistavropoulos, H. D., McCall, H. C., Thiessen, D. L., Huang, Z., Carleton, R. N., Dear, B. F., & Titov, N. (2021). Initial outcomes of transdiagnostic internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy tailored for public safety personnel: A longitudinal observational study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(5), e27610. https://doi.org/10.2196/27610