Data published in The Lancet indicate that Stanza (Swing Therapeutics), a self-guided, smartphone-based digital therapy, provides effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) without a clinician, suggesting a possible workaround to barriers caused by clinician shortages.
Guidelines for treating fibromyalgia recommend combining medication with nondrug approaches, including CBT. However, due to lack of trained providers and high cost, only 5% of fibromyalgia patients receive CBT.