Evaluating the efficacy of a self-guided Web-based CBT intervention for reducing cancer-distress: a randomised controlled trial

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1043-1051

  Beatty, Lisa ^a,b   Koczwara, Bogda ^b   Wade, Tracey ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CBT; Distress; Internet; Intervention; Self guided

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COPING ONLINE; CANCER DISTRESS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL STATUS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84955723826     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-015-2867-6     Document Type: Article

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