Efficacy of psychodynamic short-term psychotherapy for depressed breast cancer patients: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zwerenz, Rüdiger ^a   Beutel, Manfred E ^a   Imruck, Barbara H ^a   Wiltink, Jörg ^a   Haselbacher, Antje ^a   Ruckes, Christian ^a   Schmidberger, Heinz ^a   Hoffmann, Gerald ^b   Schmidt, Marcus ^a   Köhler, Uwe ^c   Langanke, Dagmar ^d   Kortmann, Rolf Dieter ^e   Kuhnt, Susanne ^f   Weißflog, Gregor ^f   Barthel, Yvette ^f   Leuteritz, Katja ^f   Brähler, Elmar ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b ST JOSEFS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c Klinikum St Georg   (Germany)

^d St Elisabeth Hospital   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Depression; Helping alliance; Personality; Quality of life; Short term psychodynamic psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DSM-IV; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREDICTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870381374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-578     Document Type: Article

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