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This application allows you to explore the benefits of psychological treatments for various mental disorders and mental health problems.

Results for your specific selection are calculated within a few seconds using a collection of comprehensive meta-analytic databases that have been compiled in the last fifteen years.

The data used to do these calculations is curated by the Metapsy Collaboration, a university-based network of mental health researchers led by the VU University Amsterdam. To learn more about the databases and the research methodology used by the Metapsy project, you can visit our About page or the Metapsy Documentation.

Detailed results based on this database are presented in Cuijpers, P. et al. (2024). Absolute and relative outcomes of psychotherapies for eight mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. World Psychiatry, 23(2), 267-275 ↗.

Mental Health Problem

Select the mental health problem or disorder you are interested in:

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Treatment

Do you want to include all treatments, or select a specific one for this mental health problem?

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Patient Group

Select the patient group in which the treatment is used:

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Results

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You have selected the following mental health problem, treatment and patient group:

Problem

Treatment

Patient Group

For this problem area, our database contains the results of clinical trial.

Based on this data, of all patients who received the treatment improved by the end of the study, while improved in the control group.

Intervention

of patients improve

Control

of patients improve

Estimated Variation

across studies

Overall, receiving the treatment means that patients are roughly times as likely to get better. Based on the current data we have, this difference is considered . Getting results like this when there is no true effect of the treatment is as likely as doing coin tosses in a row that all come up heads (p=).

How trustworthy are the results?

When assessing these effects, it is also important to reflect critically how trustworthy these results are. To do this, it is helpful to look at the number of available studies, how much effects vary across studies, and the quality of the available evidence.

Available sample size

The result we present here are based on trial with participants. This sample size can be considered .

Variation across studies

To assess the trustworthiness of the results, it is also important to consider how strongly the results differ between different studies. Here, the variation in effects can be considered .

Study quality

In total, studies (% of all included studies) were considered to have a low risk of bias.

Risk of Bias