A randomised controlled study of face-to-face versus internet-based teaching of CBT skills for healthcare professionals in Sudan.

Background: A need has been identified for affordable and scalable methods for disseminating cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) to countries with barriers to traditional methods of teaching.

Objective: This study evaluated the effectiveness of internet-based teaching versus face-to-face teaching in improving the CBT theory, assessment, and formulation skills of a group of mental health practitioners in Khartoum, Sudan.

Method: Participants ( = 36) were randomly assigned to (a) a 3 h live lecture, or (b) a computer-based multimedia recorded lecture of the same duration.

Setting the alarm: Word emotional attributes require consolidation to be operational.

Demonstrations of emotional Stroop in conditioned made-up words are flawed because of the lack of task ensuring similar word encoding across conditions. Here, participants were trained on associations between made-up words (e.g.