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Psychological treatments that involve exposure have shown promise for several conditions where patients suffer from persistent physical symptoms and unwanted responses to these. It is unclear, however, to what extent exposure therapy has effects beyond existing routine care interventions and who benefits the most.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0033291725101244_sec2\" sec-type=\"methods\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A randomized controlled trial at a primary care center in Stockholm, Sweden compared 10\u00a0weeks of internet-delivered exposure therapy (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0=\u00a080) to healthy lifestyle promotion (HLP;\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0=\u00a081) for patients bothered by at least one persistent physical symptom. The primary outcome was the mean reduction in subjective somatic symptom burden (Patient Health Questionnaire 15) as measured week-by-week up to the post-treatment assessment. Secondary outcomes included symptom preoccupation, anxiety, depression symptoms, and functional impairment.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0033291725101244_sec3\" sec-type=\"results\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Patients contributed 1544 datapoints during treatment. The primary analysis showed no significant advantage of exposure therapy versus HLP in the reduction of mean somatic symptom burden (\n                      <jats:italic>d<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0=\u00a00.14;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0=\u00a00.220). In secondary analyses, exposure showed superiority in the reduction of symptom preoccupation (\n                      <jats:italic>d<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0=\u00a00.31;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0=\u00a00.033) but not anxiety, depression symptoms, or functional impairment. A higher somatic symptom burden or symptom preoccupation before treatment was predictive of a larger advantage of exposure versus HLP.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0033291725101244_sec4\" sec-type=\"conclusions\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Exposure therapy does not appear to show noteworthy average benefit over HLP, with the exception of symptom preoccupation. 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