Factors associated with dropout in a group cognitive behaviour therapy for mood disorders

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1025-1030

  Oei, Tian P S ^a   Kazmierczak, Therese ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOOD; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STUDY; SYMPTOM; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030775184     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(97)00060-0     Document Type: Article

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