Baseline predictors of treatment outcome in Internet-based alcohol interventions: A recursive partitioning analysis alongside a randomized trial

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Blankers, Matthijs ^a,b   Koeter, Maarten W J ^b   Schippers, Gerard M ^b  

^a JellinekMentrum   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Internet; Intervention; Outcome predictors; RCT; Recursive partitioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION TREE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877026373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-455     Document Type: Article

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