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For most mood and anxiety disorders, lack of treatment causes more suffering and disability than treatment resistance. Returning veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a very low rate of treatment initiation and follow-through, contributing to lack of recovery over time. Researchers tested a brief cognitive-behavioral telephone intervention designed to reduce these patients' cognitive barriers (i.e., beliefs) to accepting treatment.
After a baseline telephone assessment, 123 veterans who screened positive for PTSD received the intervention on a second telephone call; 151 controls did not get a second call. Intervention recipients were about twice as likely to enter treatment in the first month as controls (21% vs. 12%), but…