Anger management for people with mild to moderate learning disabilities: Study protocol for a multi-centre cluster randomized controlled trial of a manualized intervention delivered by day-service staff

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Willner, Paul ^a   Jahoda, Andrew ^b   Rose, John ^c   Stenfert Kroese, Biza ^c   Hood, Kerenza ^d   Townson, Julia K ^d   Nuttall, Jacqueline ^d   Gillespie, David ^d   Felce, David ^e  

^a ABERTAWE BRO MORGANNWG UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEARNING DISORDER; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ANGER; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DAY CARE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MENTAL DISORDERS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79651471380     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-36     Document Type: Article

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