Women going through menopause are up to four times more likely to experience a major depressive episode. Subclinical depressive symptoms are also prevalent, with perimenopausal and postmenopausal women.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a structured psychological treatment with strong empirical support for mental health difficulties (eg, depression, anxiety) and health conditions (eg, chronic pain, cardiopulmonary disease).
CBT has been proposed as a low-risk treatment for vasomotor symptoms and has received some empirical support.
CBT group-based treatment (CBT-Meno) was designed to address a broad range of common physical and psychological menopausal symptoms.
In this episode Prof Wattar and Prof Talaulikar iscuss and critically appraise a randomised trial by Green et al on the effectiveness of CBT to improve menopausal symptoms.
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Link to the article: DOI: 10.1097/GME.0000000000001363
