Recruitment into a guided internet based CBT (iCBT) intervention for depression: Lesson learnt from the failure of a prevalence recruitment strategy

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 641-648

  Woodford, Joanne ^a   Farrand, Paul ^a   Bessant, Michael ^b   Williams, Christopher ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS Direct   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Depression; ICBT; Prevalence recruitment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; INTERNET BASED COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; ONLINE SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE RECRUITMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; STUDY DESIGN; TELEPHONE;

EID: 79960893253     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2011.04.013     Document Type: Article

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