Symptom-specific effectiveness of an internet-based intervention in the treatment of mild to moderate depressive symptomatology: The potential of network estimation techniques

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 122, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Boschloo, Lynn ^a   Cuijpers, Pim ^a   Karyotaki, Eirini ^a,b   Berger, Thomas ^c   Moritz, Steffen ^d   Meyer, Björn ^e   Klein, Jan Philipp ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e GAIA AG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

CBT; Depressive symptoms; Internet based intervention; Network estimation techniques; Precision psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THERAPY EFFECT; WEB BROWSER; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET-BASED INTERVENTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85072256676     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2019.103440     Document Type: Article

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