Psychological therapy vs Waitlist/Usual Care: Global Impressions scale change item (CGI‐I or similar): no. of responders (acute phase)
Psychological therapy may leads to higher treatment response at end of treatment CGI‐improvement/Global… compared with usual care or waiting list (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Psychological therapy vs usual care or waiting list Treatment response at end of treatment CGI‐improvement/Global impression of change · people with somatoform disorders and medically unexplained physical symptoms Psychological therapy may leads to higher treatment response at end of treatment CGI‐improvement/Global… compared with usual care or waiting list (low certainty). Non‐pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders and medically unexplained physical symptoms… (2014) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 3.3 [2.08, 5.21] | 4 studies · 391 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non‐pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders and medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) in adults 2014 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.