CBT for menopause: a review reports symptom and quality-of-life improvements
A review of psychological therapy studies found benefits across several menopause-related outcomes, but the abstract leaves the size of those benefits and the comparisons unclear.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
The review reports that cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, improved menopause-related symptoms and health-related quality of life. Reported benefits included hot flushes, night sweats, mood symptoms and sleep difficulties. However, the abstract provides no effect sizes or clear control-group details, so readers cannot judge how large the benefits were or how consistently they appeared.
This abstract-based account combines evidence from different study designs. Without study-level results, comparator details or uncertainty estimates, it cannot establish the size of benefit or whether one CBT format works better than another.
What the review examined
Researchers considered group sessions, individual therapy and self-help approaches. Their question was whether CBT could ease the impact of menopausal symptoms and improve quality of life, rather than simply document changes in a single symptom.
Reading the format comparison
The authors described larger benefits for group CBT and more moderate improvements with self-help. The abstract does not show direct comparisons between formats, so that description alone cannot establish which approach is superior.
The original publication
Cognitive behavioural therapy for menopausal symptoms: a systematic review of efficacy in improving quality of life.
Rukure H, Husted M
BMC Womens Health · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 41462190
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