Who seeks ICBT for depression and how do they get there? Effects of recruitment source on patient demographics and clinical characteristics

Internet Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 221-225

  Lindner, Philip ^a,b   Nyström, Markus B T ^c   Hassmén, Peter ^c,d   Andersson, Gerhard ^a,e   Carlbring, Per ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^e LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Google; Internet interventions; Methodology; Newspaper; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERNET PROTOCOL; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF-RATING DEPRESSION SCALE;

EID: 84928608969     PISSN: 22147829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2015.04.002     Document Type: Article

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