Pretreatment attrition and formal withdrawal during treatment and their predictors: An exploratory study of the anxiety online data

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  AL Asadi, Ali M ^a,b   Klein, Britt ^a,c,d   Meyer, Denny ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Grande Prairie Regional College   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; E mental health; ETherapy; Internet interventions; Predictors; Pretreatment attrition; Treatment withdrawal dropouts

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MALE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELEMEDICINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DATASETS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84906219654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2989     Document Type: Article

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