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- Psychosocial interventions for erectile dysfunction
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Jun-2008
Normal sexual function is a biopsychosocial process and relies on the coordination of psychological, endocrine, vascular, and neurological factors. Recent data show that psychological factors are involved in a substantial number of cases of erectile dysfu
- Psychosocial interventions for people with both severe mental illness and substance misuse
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Apr-2014
Even low levels of substance misuse by people with a severe mental illness can have detrimental effects.
- Psychosocial interventions for pregnant women in outpatient illicit drug treatment programs compared to other interventions
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 3-Apr-2015
Illicit drug use in pregnancy is a complex social and public health problem. The consequences of drug use in pregnancy are high for both the woman and her child. Therefore, it is important to develop and evaluate effective treatments. There is evidence fo
- Psychosocial interventions for recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in childhood
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 17-Feb-2014
Between 4% and 25% of school-age children complain of recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) of sufficient severity to interfere with daily activities. For the majority of such children, no organic cause for their pain can be found on physical examination or inve
- Psychosocial interventions for reducing injection and sexual risk behaviour for preventing HIV in drug users
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Nov-2009
Drug users (including both injection drug users and crack cocaine users), are at high levels of risk for contracting HIV. Therefore it is important to reduce the injection and/or sexual risk behaviours of these groups both for the benefit of themselves an
- Psychosocial interventions for smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 2-Jul-2015
This is an update of a Cochrane review previously published in 2008. Smoking increases the risk of developing atherosclerosis but also acute thrombotic events. Quitting smoking is potentially the most effective secondary prevention measure and improves pr
- Psychosocial interventions for supporting women to stop smoking in pregnancy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Oct-2013
Tobacco smoking in pregnancy remains one of the few preventable factors associated with complications in pregnancy, stillbirth, low birthweight and preterm birth and has serious long-term implications for women and babies. Smoking in pregnancy is decreasi
- Psychosocial interventions to improve quality of life and emotional wellbeing for recently diagnosed cancer patients
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Feb-2015
A cancer diagnosis may lead to significant psychological distress in up to 75% of cases. There is a lack of clarity about the most effective ways to address this psychological distress.
- Psychosocial treatment for opiate abuse and dependence
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Apr-2014
Substance dependence is a social and public health problem; therefore it is a priority to develop effective treatments. Previous Cochrane reviews have explored the efficacy of pharmacotherapy for opiate dependence. This current review focuses on the role
- Psychostimulants for depression
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Nov-2008
Depression is common, disabling, costly and under-treated. There are problems in the current first-line drug treatment, antidepressants, for moderate or severe depression. There is a body of research that has evaluated the effect of psychostimulants (PS)
- Psychotherapeutic interventions for cannabis abuse and/or dependence in outpatient settings
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 18-Jun-2013
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- Psychotherapeutic treatments for older depressed people
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Nov-2008
Despite a number of reviews advocating psychotherapy for the treatment of depression, there is relatively little evidence based on randomised controlled trials that specifically examines its efficacy in older people.
- Psychotherapies for hypochondriasis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Mar-2009
Hypochondriasis is associated with significant medical morbidity and high health resource use. Recent studies have examined the treatment of hypochondriasis using various forms of psychotherapy.
- Psychotherapy for depression among incurable cancer patients
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 17-Jun-2013
The most common psychiatric diagnosis among cancer patients is depression; this diagnosis is even more common among patients with advanced cancer. Psychotherapy is a patient-preferred and promising strategy for treating depression among cancer patients. S
- Psychotropic analgesic nitrous oxide for alcoholic withdrawal states
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Aug-2008
Alcoholism is a global problem with 5-10% of the world's population demonstrating alcohol-related diseases. One of the most severe consequences of alcohol dependence is the withdrawal syndrome, for which benzodiazepines are the most popular current treatm
- Quetiapine for schizophrenia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Dec-2012
Quetiapine is an atypical antipsychotic with, theoretically, a low propensity for movement disorder adverse effects. It is used for the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychoses.
- Quetiapine versus other atypical antipsychotics for schizophrenia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 18-Nov-2013
In many countries, second-generation ('atypical') antipsychotic drugs have become the first-line drug treatment for people with schizophrenia. It is not clear how the effects of the various second-generation antipsychotic drugs differ.
- Quit and Win contests for smoking cessation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 21-Jun-2011
Quit and Win contests were developed in the 1980s by the Minnesota Heart Health Program, and have been widely used since then as a population-based smoking cessation intervention at local, national and international level. Since 1994 an international cont
- Reality orientation for dementia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 6-Nov-2008
Reality Orientation (RO) was first described as a technique to improve the quality of life of confused elderly people, although its origins lie in an attempt to rehabilitate severely disturbed war veterans, not in geriatric work. It operates through the p
- Reduction versus abrupt cessation in smokers who want to quit
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Oct-2012
The standard way to stop smoking is to quit abruptly on a designated quit day. A number of smokers have tried unsuccessfully to quit this way. Reducing smoking before quitting could be an alternative approach to cessation. Before this method is adopted it
