Time to remission from mild to moderate depressive symptoms: One year results from the EVIDENT-study, an RCT of an internet intervention for depression

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 97, Issue , 2017, Pages 154-162

  Klein, Jan Philipp ^a   Späth, Christina ^a   Schröder, Johanna ^b   Meyer, Björn ^c,d   Greiner, Wolfgang ^e   Hautzinger, Martin ^f   Lutz, Wolfgang ^g   Rose, Matthias ^h,i   Vettorazzi, Eik ^b   Andersson, Gerhard ^j,k   Hohagen, Fritz ^a   Moritz, Steffen ^b   Berger, Thomas ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c GAIA AG   (Germany)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^h CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Cognitive behavior therapy; Depression; Internet intervention; One year follow up; Randomized controlled trial; Remission

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERNET; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF CARE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85026803788     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2017.07.013     Document Type: Article

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