9 11 Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of cCBT has shown larger effect sizes where a level of professional support or guidance is offered to accompany the computer mediated treatment programme.
The detailed clinical profiling at study entry and general practitioners' access to the computer assisted treatment protocol may explain the large, clinically significant, reductions in blood pressure in both groups (mean change >13/7 mm Hg in the intervention group and >10/5 mm Hg in the control group).
In these trials, Cox's group will compare alcohol abusers who receive no treatment, those who receive a different kind of treatment, those who receive the computer-based treatment, and those who receive both treatments.
In addition, these terms were paired with the terms 'internet or computer or online' to identify papers relating to internet or computer treatment in particular.
Standard postoperative radiotherapy techniques (Awwad et al, 1992) were applied using a Philips 6 MV linear accelerator, a Varian simulator and a Multidata computer treatment planning system.
You go from the bright, plasticised, shadowless light of the great court, created by the computer-designed treatment of the roof glass, into the black box.
The animation company Blue Sky has given the gang the 3D computer generated treatment, but the result is a crafty middle ground that honours the past while still entrancing the current crop of rug rats.
"What we're hoping to do is illuminate that process for any clinician so that they can examine in the computer the various treatment alternatives, and project them forward in time to see how they would have improved the patient's condition".
Reasons patients gave for their choice included 'it explains how and why'it'it explains why treatment is randomly allocated to patients' and 'it sounds as if there is a sense and a meaning for the computer choosing a treatment'.
There were no significant between-group differences in age, marital status, education, employment, previous discussions of symptoms with a health professional, use of medication, weekly use of the internet, confidence in using computers, treatment expectancies, or pre-treatment scores on the outcome measures.
