A quality-based review of randomized controlled trials of cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: An assessment and metaregression

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-30

  Thoma, Nathan C ^a,b,c   McKay, Dean ^a,b,c   Gerber, Andrew J ^a,b,c   Milrod, Barbara L ^a,b,c   Edwards, Anna R ^a,b,c   Kocsis, James H ^a,b,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIA; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MINOR DEPRESSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODYNAMICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857229509     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11030433     Document Type: Review

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