Digital help for cognitive difficulties after depression
In recent years, Sunniva Brurok Myklebost has researched how digital coping can help against residual cognitive challenges after depression.
Photo: Inger-Lise Dale Davidsen
The project results have now been published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.
Residual cognitive symptoms, such as attention and concentration difficulties, are among the most common residual symptoms of depression. Residual cognitive symptoms affect how people are functioning at work, school and socially. Symptoms can also be linked to rumination and recurrence of new episodes of depression.
The study aimed to investigate the effect of a digital coping program for cognitive late effects. The study was a randomized controlled trial that included 44 people in remission from depression. Participants in the treatment group received a digital coping program developed for cognitive residual symptoms. The control group consisted of a waiting list group that received the treatment after 7 weeks.
The main findings showed a large reduction in residual cognitive symptoms and rumination compared to those in the waiting list group.