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Does cognitive flexibility predict treatment gains in Internet-delivered psychological treatment of social anxiety disorder, depression, or tinnitus?

Overview of attention for article published in PeerJ, April 2016
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Title
Does cognitive flexibility predict treatment gains in Internet-delivered psychological treatment of social anxiety disorder, depression, or tinnitus?
Published in
PeerJ, April 2016
DOI 10.7717/peerj.1934
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Philip Lindner, Per Carlbring, Erik Flodman, Amanda Hebert, Stephanie Poysti, Filip Hagkvist, Robert Johansson, Vendela Zetterqvist Westin, Thomas Berger, Gerhard Andersson

Abstract

Little is known about the individual factors that predict outcomes in Internet-administered psychological treatments. We hypothesized that greater cognitive flexibility (i.e. the ability to simultaneously consider several concepts and tasks and switch effortlessly between them in response to changes in environmental contingencies) would provide a better foundation for learning and employing the cognitive restructuring techniques taught and exercised in therapy, leading to greater treatment gains. Participants in three trials featuring Internet-administered psychological treatments for depression (n = 36), social anxiety disorder (n = 115) and tinnitus (n = 53) completed the 64-card Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) prior to treatment. We found no significant associations between perseverative errors on the WCST and treatment gains in any group. We also found low accuracy in the classification of treatment responders. We conclude that lower cognitive flexibility, as captured by perseverative errors on the WCST, should not impede successful outcomes in Internet-delivered psychological treatments.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Unknown 124 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 14%
Researcher 17 13%
Student > Bachelor 17 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 8%
Professor 7 6%
Other 23 18%
Unknown 34 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 49 39%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 9%
Social Sciences 8 6%
Sports and Recreations 4 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 2%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 41 33%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 April 2016.
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#2,946,161
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#3,182
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#48,187
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