Efficacy of a Mindfulness-Based Mobile Application: a Randomized Waiting-List Controlled Trial

Mindfulness

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 187-198

  van Emmerik, Arnold A P ^a   Berings, Fieke ^b   Lancee, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Health Insurance Company VGZ   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

E health; Intervention; M health; Mindfulness; Psychiatry; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041282910     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-017-0761-7     Document Type: Article

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