Shyness 3: Randomized controlled trial of guided versus unguided Internet-based CBT for social phobia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1030-1040

  Titov, Nickolai ^a,b   Andrews, Gavin ^a,b   Choi, Isabella ^a,b   Schwencke, Genevieve ^b   Mahoney, Alison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinician assisted computerized cognitive behavioural therapy; Internet; Randomized controlled trial; Self guided; Social phobia; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLINICIAN ASSISTED INTERNET BASED COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; UNGUIDED INTERNET BASED COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CARE; SHYNESS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56749104681     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670802512107     Document Type: Article

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