Psychological therapies for the treatment of mental disorders in low-and middle-income countries affected by humanitarian crises

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Purgato, Marianna ^a,b   Gastaldon, Chiara ^b   Papola, Davide ^b   van Ommeren, Mark ^c   Barbui, Corrado ^b   Tol, Wietse A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICIAN ADMINISTERED PTSD SCALE; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION SELF RATING SCALE; EXPOSURE THERAPY; EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING; FUNCTION IMPAIRMENT MEASURE; GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONING; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HARVARD TRAUMA QUESTIONNAIRE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 15; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER CHECKLIST CIVILIAN VERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCREEN FOR ANXIETY RELATED EMOTIONAL DISORDERS 5; SOMATIC SYMPTOM SCALE 8; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WHO DISABILITY ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE; WHO QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE;

EID: 85000461666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011849     Document Type: Article

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