Practitioner perspectives on strategies to promote longer-term benefits of acupuncture or counselling for depression: A qualitative study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  MacPherson, Hugh ^a   Newbronner, Liz ^a,b   Chamberlain, Ruth ^b   Richmond, Stewart J ^a   Lansdown, Harriet ^a   Perren, Sara ^a   Hopton, Ann ^a   Spilsbury, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Firefly Research and Evaluation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURIST; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; COUNSELLOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SLEEP; SYMPTOM; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; DEPRESSION; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84907211277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104077     Document Type: Article

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