"Less depression through online self-help '

Gepubliceerd op 5 mei 2016 om 08:52

People with mild depression may benefit from online self-help to prevent a true depression.

This type of therapy reduces the symptoms of participants, and occurs in a real depression in six.

This is evident from German and Dutch research, led by professors from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with over four hundred Germans with incipient depression.

The effects are about the same as in the treatment of someone who has already developed a depression. The researchers suggest that this preventive therapy may be an important addition to existing treatments.

In-line therapy, which lasted about six weeks, people were among others how they can put their problems one by one and can work on a solution. They also had to systematically identify where they are happy. Remote watched a coach, and made ​​suggestions.

,, The results show that on-line self-help reduces the risk of the development of depressive disorders, or at least postpone, "said Pim Cuijpers, one of the Dutch researchers. Whether the effects are permanent, remains to be investigated.

Depressions are very common in the Western world and are associated with high economic costs.

By: Editors Telegraaf.nl/ Photo: ANP XTRA

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