Internet-based therapy with FearFighter for anxiety disorders: a randomised clinical trial.

Internet-based cognitive behavioural self-help psychotherapy (ICBT) can be an important alternative or supplement to ordinary face-to-face therapy. To assess effectiveness of ICBT for adults with an anxiety disorder. Sixty-four participants were randomised to 9 weeks with the FearFighter ICBT program ( = 32) or no intervention ( = 32).

An analysis of the effects of a campaign supporting use of a health symbol on food sales and shopping behaviour of consumers.

Background: Since 2009, the green Keyhole symbol has been a joint Nordic initiative for signalling healthfulness of specific food products. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries carried out a campaign aimed mainly at men over 35 with a low level of education, encouraging them to use the Keyhole in their shopping process. The objective of the study is to evaluate the campaign by measuring its effect on consumer behaviour in the store.

Internet-based self-help therapy with FearFighter™ versus no intervention for anxiety disorders in adults: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Internet-based self-help psychotherapy (IBT) could be an important alternative or supplement to ordinary face-to-face therapy. The findings of randomised controlled trials indicate that the effects of various IBT programmes for anxiety disorders seem better than no intervention and in some instances are equivalent to usual therapy. In Denmark, IBT is part of future treatment plans in mental health care services, but the verification level of the current clinical scientific knowledge is insufficient.

A register-based study of long-term healthcare use before and after psychotherapy.

Background: Psychotherapeutic treatment for non-psychotic disorders is associated with significant reduction in patients' symptoms, and therefore it is believed that treatment improves health and decreases the need for additional healthcare. However, little is known about long-term changes in utilization of healthcare services.

Aim: To investigate long-term changes in utilization of public healthcare services for patients referred to psychotherapeutic treatment.

No-shows, drop-outs and completers in psychotherapeutic treatment: demographic and clinical predictors in a large sample of non-psychotic patients.

Background: A primary challenge in mental health services is a high rate of non-attendance (i.e. no-show and drop-out) for patients referred to treatment for psychiatric disorders.

Cognitive deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder on tests of frontal lobe functions.

Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) display frontal lobe deficits, but there are inconsistencies between various tests of frontal lobe functions and between the results from different studies. The objective of this work was to characterize frontal lobe dysfunctions in OCD patients. Fifteen patients and 17 control subjects matched for age, sex and intelligence were tested on classic tests of frontal lobe functions [Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and tests of fluency], a smell identification test and one computerized test: the Intra/Extra Dimension test.