Cognitive therapy improves depressive symptoms in diabetes

Individual mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and individual cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) improve depressive symptoms for patients with diabetes and depressive symptoms, according to a study published online in Diabetes Care.  K. Annika Tovote, from the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, and colleagues conducted a randomized controlled trial involving 94 outpatients with types 1 and 2 diabetes and comorbid depressive symptoms.  Participants were randomly allocated to receive MBCT (31 patients), CBT (32 patients), or waiting list (31 patients). Participants completed written questionnaires and interviews before treatment and three months later. The researchers found that significantly greater reductions were seen