Internet treatment for social anxiety disorder in Romania: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tulbure, Bogdan Tudor ^a   Månsson, Kristoffer N T ^b   Andersson, Gerhard ^b,c  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Guided self help; Internet administrated cognitive behavior therapy; Randomized controlled trial; Social anxiety disorder; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE AND BELIEF SCALE II; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNET; LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE SELF REPORT; METHODOLOGY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); ROMANIA; SELF HELP; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERNET; PATIENT SELECTION; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RESEARCH DESIGN; ROMANIA; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867898170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-202     Document Type: Article

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