Exposure Therapy for PTSD Delivered to Veterans via Telehealth: Predictors of Treatment Completion and Outcome and Comparison to Treatment Delivered in Person

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 276-283

  Gros, Daniel F ^a   Yoder, Matthew ^a   Tuerk, Peter W ^a   Lozano, Brian E ^a   Acierno, Ron ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALES; EXPOSURE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLNESS INTRUSIVENESS RATINGS SCALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PTSD CHECKLIST MILITARY; RATING SCALE; TELEHEALTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; COMBAT DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TELEMEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERANS;

EID: 79954571043     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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