06.09.2018 | Original Contribution
Treatment satisfaction following routine outpatient cognitive-behavioral therapy of adolescents with mental disorders: a triple perspective of patients, parents and therapists
verfasst von:
Paula Viefhaus, Manfred Döpfner, Lydia Dachs, Hildegard Goletz, Anja Görtz-Dorten, Claudia Kinnen, Daniela Perri, Christiane Rademacher, Stephanie Schürmann, Katrin Woitecki, Tanja Wolff Metternich-Kaizman, Daniel Walter
Erschienen in:
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
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Ausgabe 4/2019
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Abstract
The present study investigates treatment satisfaction (TS) rated by multiple informants (patient, parent, therapist) following routine outpatient cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) within a large sample (n = 965) of clinically referred adolescents aged 11–20 years. Moreover, potential predictors of TS were analyzed (patient-related variables, mental disorder characteristics, socio-demographic factors and treatment variables). Overall, our results show a high treatment satisfaction in patient, parent and therapist ratings, with the therapists being the most critical raters (completely/predominantly satisfied: 87.8% in patient, 92.0% in parent, and 64.0% in therapist ratings). Correlations between the three raters were only small to moderate, but statistically significant. Regression analysis examining differential effects found that mental disorder characteristics (parent- and patient-reported symptoms at post) and treatment variables (especially cooperation of patients and parents as rated by therapists) explained most of the variance in TS, whereas patient-related or socio-demographic variables did not emerge as relevant predictors of TS. The amounts of explained variance were R
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= 0.594 in therapist rating, R
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= 0.322 in patient rating and R
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= 0.203 in parent rating.