Table 3.
Scorecard of meta-analytic findings for individual chronic conditions across psychological therapies
| Combined psychological therapies for each illness condition (post Rx) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | Child | |||||
| Behaviour | Mental health | Behaviour/disability | Mental health | Primary symptom | Family functioning | |
| Pain | No effect (2) | Unknown (0) | No effect (7) | No effect (4) | Effect found (9) | Unknown (1) |
| Cancer | Effect found (5) | No effect (9) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (1) | Unknown (0) |
| Diabetes | Unknown (1) | No effect (3) | No effect (3) | No effect (2) | Effect found (9) | No effect (5) |
| Asthma | Unknown (1) | No effect (2) | No effect (2) | Unknown (0) | No effect (4) | Unknown (0) |
| TBI | Unknown (1) | No effect (2) | Unknown (4) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | No effect (2) |
| Skin diseases | Unknown (1) | Unknown (1) | Unknown (1) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (1) | Unknown (0) |
| Combined psychological therapies for each illness condition (Follow-up) | ||||||
| Parent | Child | |||||
| Behaviour | Mental health | Behaviour/disability | Mental health | Primary symptom | Family functioning | |
| Pain | Unknown (1) | Unknown (0) | No effect (3) | No effect (2) | No effect (6) | Unknown (1) |
| Cancer | No effect (5) | Effect found (6) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) |
| Diabetes | Unknown (0) | Unknown (1) | Unknown (1) | Unknown (0) | Effect (4) | Unknown (0) |
| Asthma | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | No effect (2) | Unknown (0) |
| TBI | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) |
| Skin diseases | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) | Unknown (0) |
Number in parentheses denotes number of studies included in analysis