Reducing Anhedonia in Major Depressive Disorder with Future Event Specificity Training (FEST): A Randomized Controlled Trial

Hallford, David John; Rusanov, Danielle; Yeow, Joseph; Austin, David W.; D’Argembeau, Arnaud; Fuller‐Tyszkiewicz, Matthew; Raes, Filip

doi:10.1007/s10608-022-10330-z

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“…The effect sizes reported by Taylor et al [29] based on different situations were 0.72 to 1.28. Also, in the research conducted by Hallford et al [30], the results showed that future event speci city training (FEST) can signi cantly reduce anhedonia. Therefore, it seems that the group CBT + CRT manual was able to reduce the anhedonia by increasing the experience of pleasure.…”

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Feasibility and acceptability of group CBT+CRT for adults with major depressive disorders in an Iranian community: a single group study

Khodabandeloo

Sohrabi

Borjali

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Background Despite significant advances in the psychological treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), many treatment challenges remain, such as high recurrence and functional impairment after treatment. It seems that ignoring underlying factors such as cold cognitive dysfunctions plays an important role in these therapeutic challenges. Although a lot of research has been done on hot cognition, cold cognition is about neglect. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability and to estimate the effect size of the group CBT+CRT for future controlled trials. Methods Among the 31 volunteers who were diagnosed with MDD in the online clinical interview, 14 adults aged 22-40 years were treated in 12 weekly two-hour sessions. Only 12 patients remained in the study at week 12. Psychological and neuropsychological assessments were evaluated by the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (BDI-II), the Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS), and the THINC-it tool. Results Data analysis showed that psychological symptoms of depression were significantly reduced at post-test and at follow-up compared to pre-test based on BDI-II and SHAPS scores. Regarding neuropsychological symptoms, effect sizes were largest for attention (d=−1.37) and processing speed (d=−1.18), but smaller effect sizes were observed for working memory (d=−0.26) and executive functioning (d=−0.54). The observed effect sizes remained relatively stable at the three-month follow-up. Conclusion To the authors' knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate group CBT+CRT for adults with MDD designed based on the hot-cold cognition model of depression, stimulating further developmental research. In general, the results showed the sufficient feasibility and acceptance of this treatment manual.

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Feasibility and acceptability of group CBT+CRT for adults with major depressive disorders in an Iranian community: a single group study

Khodabandeloo

Sohrabi

Borjali

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“…A preliminary study reported beneficial effects for a different type of cognitive intervention that uses mental imagery to anticipate and experience pleasure in future activities. Although suggestive, a larger, better controlled study is needed (47).…”

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New Perspectives on Treatment of Depression in Coronary Heart Disease

Carney

Freedland

2023

Psychosom Med

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It has been 35 years since we published a study in Psychosomatic Medicine showing that patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and major depression were at twice the risk of having a cardiac event as were nondepressed patients (Carney et al. Psychosom Med. 1988;50:627–33). This small study was followed a few years later by a larger, more convincing report from Frasure-Smith et al. (JAMA. 1993;270:1819–25) showing that depression increased the rate of mortality in patients with a recent acute myocardial infarction. Since the 1990s, there have been many more studies of depression as a risk factor for cardiac events and cardiac-related mortality from all over the world, and many clinical trials designed to determine whether treating depression improves medical outcomes in these patients. Unfortunately, the effects of depression treatment in patients with CHD remain unclear. This article considers why it has been difficult to determine whether treatment of depression improves survival in these patients. It also proposes several lines of research to address this question, with the goal of definitively establishing whether treating depression can extend cardiac event–free survival and enhance quality of life in patients with CHD.

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“…The EFT training usually invites subjects to imagine positive‐valenced future events. Evidence suggests that, after EFT training, patients with MDD have improved future thinking characteristics, reduced anhedonia, increased anticipatory and anticipated pleasure for future events, and increased behavioral activation and functioning (Hallford et al, 2022). In schizophrenia patients, EFT training can improve MTT specificity and reduce depressive symptoms (Chen et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%