Effects of an internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) program in manga format on improving subthreshold depressive symptoms among healthy workers: A randomized controlled trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Imamura, Kotaro ^a   Kawakami, Norito ^a   Furukawa, Toshi A ^b   Matsuyama, Yutaka ^a   Shimazu, Akihito ^a   Umanodan, Rino ^c   Kawakami, Sonoko ^d   Kasai, Kiyoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Protein Wave Corporation   (Japan)

^d University of Tok yo   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; JAPAN; LEISURE; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF MONITORING; WORKER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84901371447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097167     Document Type: Article

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