Internet-based treatment of major depression for patients on a waiting list for inpatient psychotherapy: Protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Reins, Jo A ^a   Ebert, David D ^a,b   Lehr, Dirk ^a   Riper, Heleen ^c,d   Cuijpers, Pim ^c   Berking, Matthias ^a,b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d GGZ InGeest   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inpatient treatment; Internet therapy; Major depression; Remission; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR DEPRESSION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF HELP; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERNET; MALE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84888187934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-318     Document Type: Article

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