Restoring depleted resources: Efficacy and mechanisms of change of an internet-based unguided recovery training for better sleep and psychological detachment from work

Health Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 1240-1251

  Ebert, David D ^a   Thiart, Hanne ^b   Laferton, Johannes A C ^d   Berking, Matthias ^a   Riper, Heleen ^b,c   Cuijpers, Pim ^b,c   Sieland, Bernhard ^b   Lehr, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Insomnia; Internet based self help; Mediators; Prevention; Work stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE IRRITATION SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INSOMNIA SEVERITY INDEX; INTERNET BASED RECOVERY TRAINING; INTERVENTION STUDY; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT WORRY; PERSEVERATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL DETACHMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RUMINATION; SATISFACTION; SELF HELP; SELF REPORT; SLEEP QUALITY; SYMPTOM; TEACHER; THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONVALESCENCE; INTERNET; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; UNIVERSITY; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FACULTY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84979823928     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/hea0000277     Document Type: Article

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