A pilot study of self-guided internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety and depression among Arabs

Internet Interventions

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages 18-24

  Kayrouz, Rony ^a   Dear, Blake F ^a   Karin, Eyal ^a   Gandy, Milena ^a   Fogliati, Vincent J ^a   Terides, Mathew D ^a   Titov, Nickolai ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Arabs; Depression; Internet delivered treatment; Transdiagnostic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARAB; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; PILOT STUDY; SHEEHAN DISABILITY SCALE; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE;

EID: 84951781456     PISSN: 22147829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2015.10.005     Document Type: Article

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