Brief web-based intervention for college students with comorbid risky alcohol use and depressed mood: Does it work and for whom?

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 36-43

  Geisner, Irene M ^a   Varvil Weld, Lindsey ^b   Mittmann, Angela J ^a   Mallett, Kimberly ^b   Turrisi, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol use; College students; Depressed mood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRIEF WEB BASED INTERVENTION; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSED MOOD; DEPRESSION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOLISM; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; RISK-TAKING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STUDENTS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911165252     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: 18736327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.10.030     Document Type: Article

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