Efficacy of expressive writing versus positive writing in different populations: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Nurs Open · 2023 · PMC10415981 · PMID 37434395

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Among the general population, PW elicited more benefits (MD = 0.45, 95% CI: 0.18, 0.71, p = 0.001), whereas, for patients, there was just a marginally statistically significant difference between the two writing prompts (MD = 0.35, 95% CI: 0.01, 0.69, p = 0.042).

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