A randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral group therapy for XXXX .

@entity1 @entity162 @entity308 @entity5624
BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the effectiveness of adjunctive cognitive behavioral group therapy (CBGT) to prevent recurrence of episodes in euthymic @entity1 with @entity162 . METHODS: A randomized controlled single-blind trial was conducted with 50 @entity1 with @entity162 types I and II followed up for at least 12 months in an outpatient service and whose disease was in remission. An experimental CBGT manual was developed and added to treatment as usual (TAU), and results were compared with @entity5624 alone. RESULTS: Intention-to-treat analysis showed that there was no difference between groups in terms of time until any relapse (Wilcoxon = 0.667; p = 0.414). When considering type of relapse, there was still no difference in either @entity308 (Wilcoxon = 3.328; p = 0.068) or @entity162 episodes (Wilcoxon = 1.498; p = 0.221). Although occurrence of episodes also did not differ between groups (  (2) = 0.28; p = 0.59), median time to relapse was longer for @entity1 treated with CBGT compared to TAU (Mann-Whitney = -2.554; p = 0.011). CONCLUSIONS: Time to recurrence and number of episodes were not different in the group of @entity1 treated with CBGT. However, median time to relapse was shorter in the TAU group. Studies with larger samples may help to clarify whether our CBGT approach prevents new episodes of @entity162 . Our findings also indicated that CBGT is feasible in euthymic @entity1 with @entity162 and should be investigated in future studies. To our knowledge, this is the first publication of a controlled trial of CBGT for euthymic @entity1 with @entity162 .
