Medscape (12/4, Brooks, Subscription Publication) reports, “Brief cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is likely a cost-saving intervention for suicidal active-duty Army soldiers,” investigators concluded in “a new economic analysis of the treatment.” In order to arrive at these findings, investigators used data from a 152-patient study, “as well as epidemiologic datasets,” to create “a decision analytic model that compared effects and costs of 12 individual brief CBT sessions plus treatment as usual vs only treatment as usual for soldiers who had recently experienced a suicidal crisis.” The findings were published online Nov. 27 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Brief CBT Lifesaving, Cost-Effective for Suicidal Crises, “Megan Brooks, Medscape, December 4, 2019