Effect of group cognitive-behavior therapy intervention on dysthymic disorders in children and adolescents / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the effect of group cognitive-behavior therapy intervention on dys-thymic disorders in children and adolescents.Methods From July 2015 to December 2017,68 cases of chil-dren and adolescents treated in Lishui Second People's Hospital were divided into two groups randomly. The study group ( 34 cases) were treated with group cognitive-behavior therapy,and the control group ( 34 cases) were treated with selective 5-hydroxytryptamine reuptake blocker ( SSRI ) . The achenbach child behavior check list(CBCL),self-rating depression scale(SDS) and self-rating anxiety scale(SAS) scores of the two groups before and after the intervention were compared.Results Before the intervention,there was no differ-ence in the score of CBCL,SDS and SAS between the study group and the control group (P>0.05). After drug treatment or cognitive-behavior therapy, the social, activity, thinking and aggressive behavior of both groups were obviously improved. The SDS and SAS scores were 43.64±4.86 and 42.27±3.74 in cognitive-be-havior therapy group,which had significant difference (P<0.05) compared with pre-intervention score of SDS (82.91±3.95) and SAS (78.61±6.28). The scores of SDS (45.61±8.03) and SAS (44.09±7.04) in treat-ment group were significantly (P<0.05) decreased compared with those before treatment (84.03±5.11 and 77.30±9.55,respectively). The satisfaction of the study group and control group was 94.1％ and 67.6％,re-spectively,and the difference was significant between the two groups(P<0.05).Conclusion The effect of cognitive-behavior therapy in children and adolescents on reducing the negative emotion is remarkable,which is equivalent to the drug treatment.The cognitive-behavior therapy in children and adolescents can be used as a auxiliary means to treat children's dysthymic disorders in clinical practice.