Overcoming procrastination: one-year follow-up and predictors of change in a randomized controlled trial of Internet-based cognitive behavior therapy

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 177-195

  Rozental, Alexander ^a   Forsell, Erik ^b   Svensson, Andreas ^b   Andersson, Gerhard ^b,c   Carlbring, Per ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

follow up; Internet based cognitive behavior therapy; predictors; procrastination; randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; EFFECT SIZE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONTROL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF-CONTROL; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84989243747     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2016.1236287     Document Type: Article

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