Discussion
anxiety, undifferentiated somatoform disorder, opiate abuse, psychiatric, insomnia, depressive behaviors, depression, substance abuse
DISORDER, DISORDERS
A significant effect of SUD, which the current researchers focused on, is its impact on psychiatric comorbidities, specifically anxiety and insomnia. Treating individual patients using novel SUD management techniques effectively decreases the susceptibility of society to opiate abuse as a whole and can be utilized as a preventative measure. In recent decades, several clinical trials using traditional treatment methods were carried out, yet they were proven to be ineffective; by contrast, CBT has proven effective in treating various mental disorders, including substance abuse. In the current study, the researchers examined the efficiency of brief CBT on mental disorders in SUD and concluded that the application of the treatment is effective on insomnia and anxiety among opiate users.The results in Table Sitnikova et al. (2019) studied the effectiveness of six sessions of CBT on patients with undifferentiated somatoform disorder. The study found no difference between CBT and standard care regarding the severity of somatic symptoms [Zhang et al. (2016) investigated the efficacy of 12 weeks of group CBT among patients with mild depression and found improvement in terms of social functioning, which was in contrast with the current study’s findings [Kamarzarin et al. (2019) investigated SUD patients and found that depressive behaviors after CBT significantly improved; however, in the present study, such an effect was not observed [Speed et al. (2022) carried out a randomized controlled trial among 21 patients with substance use disorder to compare the efficacy of eight sessions of group-based CBT with nine hours of behavioral health sessions on insomnia. It was observed that insomnia symptoms were reduced in both groups over time; however, the decline rate in the CBT group was higher as compared to the control group (80% versus 25%) [CBT is also considered to be an effective first-line treatment option for anxiety [The effect of brief CBT has yet to be investigated extensively. Roos et al. (2020) performed a review study of clinical trials to differentiate CBT’s short-term and long-term effects on SUD patients and evaluate computer-based CBT on brief or long-term outcomes. The results showed that long-term effects on coping skills were more significant than short-term outcomes [