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"Group therapy for schizophrenia: A meta-analysis": Correction to Burlingame et al. (2020)

Psychotherapy, 2020

4,156 participants · 2 citations

Abstract

Reports an error in "Group therapy for schizophrenia: A meta-analysis" by Gary M. Burlingame, Hal Svien, Lars Hoppe, Isaac Hunt and Jenny Rosendahl (Psychotherapy, 2020[Jun], Vol 57[2], 219-236). In the article, the Orfanos et al. (2015) meta-analysis was missing from Burlingame et al. (2020) and should have appeared as Footnote 1 at the end of the abstract. Consistent with Orfanos et al. (2015), the Burlingame et al. (2020) findings support the notion that group treatments can improve negative symptoms of schizophrenia, across active and passive controls. Unlike Orfanos et al.'s (2015) study, Burlingame et al. (2020) also found a significant effect size for positive symptoms. Reference Orfanos, S., Banks, C., & Priebe, S. (2015). Are group psychotherapeutic treatments effective for patients with schizophrenia? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 84, 241-249. https://doi.org/10.1159/ 000377705. Footnote 2 was missing from the end of the first sentence in the Method section. This meta-analysis is not registered with PROSPERO, and the PROSPERO protocol (CRD42013004419) does not include the disorder of schizophrenia... (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2020-37337-001.) The effectiveness of group treatments for people with schizophrenia has not been examined on symptom-specific (positive and negative symptoms) outcomes, and the differential effects of the most popular group treatments remain unknown. We…

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