Internet-Delivered Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Tinnitus: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 501-510

  Weise, Cornelia ^a,b   Kleinstäuber, Maria ^a   Andersson, Gerhard ^b,c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cognitive behavioral therapy; Internet based intervention; randomized controlled trial; tinnitus; tinnitus related distress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INSOMNIA SEVERITY INDEX; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TELEMEDICINE; TINNITUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957824989     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000310     Document Type: Article

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