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A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder (CSBD) is a medical condition that can impair social and occupational functioning and lead to severe distress. To date, treatment effectiveness studies of CSBD are under-developed; typically, treatment for CSBD is based on guidelines for subs...

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Autores principales: Holas, Paweł, Draps, Małgorzata, Kowalewska, Ewelina, Lewczuk, Karol, Gola, Mateusz
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Publicado: Akadémiai Kiadó 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33216012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00075
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author Holas, Paweł
Draps, Małgorzata
Kowalewska, Ewelina
Lewczuk, Karol
Gola, Mateusz
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Draps, Małgorzata
Kowalewska, Ewelina
Lewczuk, Karol
Gola, Mateusz
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description BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder (CSBD) is a medical condition that can impair social and occupational functioning and lead to severe distress. To date, treatment effectiveness studies of CSBD are under-developed; typically, treatment for CSBD is based on guidelines for substance or other behavioural addictions. Mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) is an evidence-based treatment for substance addiction aimed at, among other things, reducing craving and negative affect—i.e. processes that are implicated in the maintenance of problematic sexual behaviours. However, to our knowledge no prior research has been published evaluating mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) in the treatment of CSBD, except two clinical case reports. Therefore, the aim of the current pilot study was to examine whether MBRP can lead to clinical improvement in CSBD. METHODS: Participants were 13 adult males with a diagnosis of CSBD. Before and after the eight-week MBRP intervention, participants completed a booklet of questionnaires including measurements of porn viewing, masturbation and emotional distress. RESULTS: As expected, we found that after MBRP participants spent significantly less time engaging in problematic pornography use and exhibited a decrease in anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate that MBRP could be beneficial for CSBD individuals. Further clinical effectiveness studies with bigger sample sizes, delayed post-training measurements and randomised control trial design are warranted. In conclusion, MBRP leads to a decrease in time spent watching porn and a decrease in emotional distress in CSBD patients.
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spelling pubmed-89697352022-04-11 A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder Holas, Paweł Draps, Małgorzata Kowalewska, Ewelina Lewczuk, Karol Gola, Mateusz J Behav Addict Brief Report BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder (CSBD) is a medical condition that can impair social and occupational functioning and lead to severe distress. To date, treatment effectiveness studies of CSBD are under-developed; typically, treatment for CSBD is based on guidelines for substance or other behavioural addictions. Mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) is an evidence-based treatment for substance addiction aimed at, among other things, reducing craving and negative affect—i.e. processes that are implicated in the maintenance of problematic sexual behaviours. However, to our knowledge no prior research has been published evaluating mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) in the treatment of CSBD, except two clinical case reports. Therefore, the aim of the current pilot study was to examine whether MBRP can lead to clinical improvement in CSBD. METHODS: Participants were 13 adult males with a diagnosis of CSBD. Before and after the eight-week MBRP intervention, participants completed a booklet of questionnaires including measurements of porn viewing, masturbation and emotional distress. RESULTS: As expected, we found that after MBRP participants spent significantly less time engaging in problematic pornography use and exhibited a decrease in anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate that MBRP could be beneficial for CSBD individuals. Further clinical effectiveness studies with bigger sample sizes, delayed post-training measurements and randomised control trial design are warranted. In conclusion, MBRP leads to a decrease in time spent watching porn and a decrease in emotional distress in CSBD patients. Akadémiai Kiadó 2020-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8969735/ /pubmed/33216012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00075 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Open Access. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited, a link to the CC License is provided, and changes – if any – are indicated.
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Holas, Paweł
Draps, Małgorzata
Kowalewska, Ewelina
Lewczuk, Karol
Gola, Mateusz
A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder
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title_full A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder
title_fullStr A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder
title_full_unstemmed A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder
title_short A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder
title_sort pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33216012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00075
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