Richard A Bryant, Suzanna Azevedo, Srishti Yadav, Catherine Cahill, Lucy Kenny, Fiona Maccallum, Jenny Tran, Jasmine Choi-Christou, Natasha Rawson, Julia Tockar, Benjamin Garber, Dharani Keyan, Katie S Dawson
IMPORTANCE: Although grief-focused cognitive behavior therapies are the most empirically supported treatment for prolonged grief disorder, many people find this treatment difficult. A viable alternative for treatment is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. OBJECTIVE: To examine the relative efficacies of grief-focused cognitive behavior therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to reduce prolonged grief disorder severity. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A single-blind, parallel, randomized clinical trial was conducted among adults aged 18 to 70 years with prolonged grief disorder, as defined in the International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision, and assessed by clinical interview based on the Prolonged Grief-13 (PG-13) scale...
April 24, 2024: JAMA Psychiatry