Quality of smartphone apps related to panic disorder

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Van Singer, Mathias ^a   Chatton, Anne ^b   Khazaal, Yasser ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorder; Apps; Cognitive behavior therapy; Internet; Panic disorder; Smartphone

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIEF DISCERN SCORE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PANIC; PSYCHOEDUCATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION; SELF HELP SCORE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 84940067816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00096     Document Type: Article

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