The Nordic long-term OCD treatment study (NordLOTS): Rationale, design, and methods

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Thomsen, Per H ^a   Torp, Nor C ^b   Dahl, Kitty ^b   Christensen, Karin ^a   Englyst, Inger ^a   Melin, Karin H ^c   Nissen, Judith B ^a   Hybel, Katja A ^a   Valderhaug, Robert ^d   Weidle, Bernhard ^e   Skarphedinsson, Gudmundur ^b   von Bahr, Petra L ^f   Ivarsson, Tord ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare   (Norway)

^e TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^f BUP Huddinge Stockholm   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Child and adolescents; Cognitive behavioural therapy; Multisite study; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Stepped care design; Study design; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; SERTRALINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; STUDY DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84890422148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17532000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-2000-7-41     Document Type: Article

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