Web-based CBT for the prevention of anxiety symptoms among medical and health science graduate students

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 385-405

  Howell, Ashley N ^a   Rheingold, Alyssa A ^a   Uhde, Thomas W ^a   Guille, Constance ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; CBT; graduate students; internet; medical students; prevention; web

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STUDENT; THERAPY; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; STUDENTS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85058210832     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2018.1533575     Document Type: Article

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