Acceptance and commitment therapy in daily life training: A feasibility study of an mhealth intervention

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Batink, Tim ^a,b   Bakker, Jindra ^a   Vaessen, Thomas ^a,c   Kasanova, Zuzana ^a,c   Collip, Dina ^a   van Os, Jim ^a,d   Wichers, Marieke ^e   Germeys, Inez ^a,c   Peeters, Frenk ^a,f  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b U Center   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f Virenze RIAGG Maastricht   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acceptance and commitment therapy; Behavior change; Daily life intervention; Experience sampling; MHealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020145097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.5437     Document Type: Article

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