Brief culturally adapted CBT (CaCBT) for depression: a randomized controlled trial from Pakistan.

Objectives: To determine the efficacy of brief Culturally adapted CBT (CaCBT) for depression when added to Treatment As usual (TAU)-delivered by trained therapists using a manual compared with alone TAU.

Methods: This was an assessor-blinded, randomised controlled clinical trial. Particpants with a diagnosis of depression, attending psychiatry departments of three teaching hospitals in Lahore, Pakistan, were included in the study.

Anxiety and depressive symptoms in patients with conversion disorder.

Objective: To determine symptom pattern of conversion disorder and its association with co-existent anxiety and depressive symptoms.

Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional study.

Place And Duration Of Study: The study was conducted in the Department of Psychiatry, Services Hospital, Lahore from August 2003 to January 2004.

Translation and validation of quality of life scale, the brief version.

Objectives: To translate The World Health Organization quality of life scale, WHO-QOL BREF, in Urdu and validate it.

Design: A descriptive study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore, from July 2002 to October 2002.