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Psychother Psychosom. 2015;84(2):90-99. doi: 10.1159/000369469. Epub 2015 Feb 21.

The Three-Month Effect of Mobile Internet-Based Cognitive Therapy on the Course of Depressive Symptoms in Remitted Recurrently Depressed Patients: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

Gemma Kok, Huibert Burger, Heleen Riper, Pim Cuijpers, Jack Dekker, Harm van Marwijk, Filip Smit, Aaron Beck, Claudi L H Bockting

Affiliations

  1. Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Germany.

PMID: 25721915 DOI: 10.1159/000369469

Abstract

Background: Internet-based cognitive therapy with monitoring via text messages (mobile CT), in addition to treatment as usual (TAU), might offer a cost-effective way to treat recurrent depression. Method: Remitted patients with at least 2 previous episodes of depression were randomized to mobile CT in addition to TAU (n = 126) or TAU only (n = 113). A linear mixed model was used to examine the effect of the treatment condition on a 3-month course of depressive symptoms after remission. Both an intention-to-treat analysis (n = 239) and a completer analysis (n = 193) were used. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS-SR

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