加拿大人的经验长度接受了同情的机会,以psilocybin辅助心理治疗
Sara de la Salle1,2, Hannes Kettner3,4, Julien Thibault Lévesque2
1Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
Scientific reports
|July 17, 2024
概括
以psilocybin辅助的心理治疗显示出减轻绝症加拿大人的焦虑和抑郁症的前景. 现实世界的数据表明,临床试验的好处与临床试验相似,强调需要进一步评估.
科学领域:
- 精神病学和心理学 精神病学和心理学
- 迷幻研究 迷幻研究
- 瘤科 支持性护理
背景情况:
- 临床试验表明psilocybin在危及生命的疾病中对焦虑抑郁症状的疗效.
- 加拿大已经为psilocybin辅助心理治疗创造了合法获取途径.
- 对于"现实世界"的病人来说,只有有限的检查可以合法地获取psilocybin.
研究的目的:
- 评估加拿大法律豁免的加拿大人psilocybin辅助心理治疗的精神和心理结果.
- 在现实世界中评估症状,生活质量和对死亡的态度的变化.
主要方法:
- 对加拿大患者进行的前性纵向调查授予了西治疗的第56条豁免.
- 调查在基线和两周后进行,评估焦虑,抑郁,疼痛和幸福感.
- 用于数据分析的描述性统计和对对的样本t测试.
主要成果:
- 8名参与者 (所有患有癌症) 完成了这项研究,报告了焦虑,抑郁,疼痛,对COVID-19的恐惧,生活质量和精神健康的显著改善.
- 对死亡的态度,死亡的医疗援助,以及加速死亡的愿望保持不变.
- 大多数人发现会议是有意义的,但具有挑战性;一个报告说,幸福感下降了.
结论:
- 初步发现表明,在现实患者中,psilocybin辅助心理治疗产生了与临床试验相比较的精神病益处.
- 由于入学人数有限和关于负面经验的报道,因此需要正式的评估计划.
- 这些结果支持正在进行的研究,研究在支持性护理环境中迷幻药的治疗潜力.
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