Healio (6/9, Gramigna) reports, “Matching patients and therapists based on therapists’ performance strengths may improve mental health care outcomes,” researches concluded in “primary modified intent-to-treat analyses” in which “they included 218 adult outpatients, of whom 67.4% were women and 88.5% were white, treated by 48 therapists.” The study “showed a match effect on reductions in weekly general symptomatic and functional impairment, global distress and domain-specific impairment.” The findings were published online June 9 in JAMA Psychiatry. Psychiatric News (6/9) also covers the study.
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— “Patient-therapist matching via therapist’s performance strengths may improve outcomes “Joe Gramigna, Healio, June 9, 2021