A spirituality teaching program for depression: A randomized controlled trial

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 315-329

  Rickhi, Badri ^a   Moritz, Sabine ^b   Reesal, Robin ^c   Xu, Tracy Jing ^b   Paccagnan, Patti ^b   Urbanska, Barbara ^b   Liu, Ming Fu ^d   Ewing, Helen ^e   Toews, John ^b   Gordon, James ^f   Quan, Hude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Canadian Institute of Natural and Integrative Medicine   (Canada)

^c Southwest Behavioral Health Services   (United States)

^d ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

^e A T STILL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f The Center for Mind Body Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

depression; randomized controlled trial; spirituality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; SPIRITUALLY TEACHING PROGRAM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIPOLAR MAJOR DEPRESSION;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPIRITUALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856479381     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.42.3.f     Document Type: Article

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