Empowerment of personal injury victims through the internet: Design of a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Elbers, Nieke A ^a,b,c   Akkermans, Arno J ^a,c   Cuijpers, Pim ^a,b,c   Bruinvels, David J ^a,c,d,e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Interdisciplinary Center of Health and Law   (Netherlands)

^d Netherlands Society of Occupational Medicine NVAB   (Netherlands)

^e Amsterdam Public Health research institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERNET; LAWYER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SELF CONCEPT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPENSATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; VICTIM;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; COMPREHENSION; CRIME VICTIMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; NETHERLANDS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF EFFICACY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79251637833     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-29     Document Type: Article

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