Feasibility of a personal health technology-based psychological intervention for men with stress and mood problems: Randomized controlled pilot trial

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lappalainen, Päivi ^a   Kaipainen, Kirsikka ^b   Lappalainen, Raimo ^a   Hoffrén, Henna ^a   Myllymäki, Tero ^a   Kinnunen, Marja Liisa ^a   Mattila, Elina ^b   Happonen, Antti P ^b   Rusko, Heikki ^a   Korhonen, Ilkka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acceptance and commitment therapy; Cognitive behaviour therapy; Internet; Mhealth; Mobile health; Personal health technologies; Smartphone; Stress; Technology supported mini intervention

Indexed keywords

EID: 85086279473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.2389     Document Type: Article

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