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Negative Effects of Psychological Treatments: An Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Negative Effects Questionnaire for Monitoring and Reporting Adverse and Unwanted Events

Alexander Rozental, Anders Kottorp, Johanna Boettcher, Gerhard Andersson and Per Carlbring · 2016

Evidence
Survey
Kind
Journal article
peer-reviewed
Method
Questionnaire development and exploratory factor analysis of reported unwanted treatment experiences
Sample
653 respondents: 189 from a treatment trial and 464 recruited through media
Published
PLOS ONE, 11(6), e0157503

Background

Earlier work that helps think about the practice, without being about it.

A questionnaire study organised reported negative experiences of psychological treatment into six dimensions, offering a tool for monitoring possible harm.

What it doesn’t show

Respondents rated the experiences and attributed their causes themselves; these reports were not independently verified. The questionnaire’s developers conducted this evaluation. The mixed recruitment sample cannot establish how common treatment-caused harm is, either generally or in groups.

Summary based on the abstract and the full text’s questionnaire-development, methods, results and discussion sections.

Directions that build on it

  1. Safety, facilitation and harm

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    What makes a circle safe, and what goes wrong when it isn’t?

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Cite

Rozental, A., Kottorp, A., Boettcher, J., Andersson, G., & Carlbring, P. (2016). Negative Effects of Psychological Treatments: An Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Negative Effects Questionnaire for Monitoring and Reporting Adverse and Unwanted Events. PLOS ONE, 11(6), e0157503. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157503