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Websites offering information about depression or cognitive behaviour therapy reduced depressive symptoms
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    Christensen H, Griffiths KM, Jorm AF. Delivering interventions for depression by using the internet: randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2004;328:265–8.OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text

    Q In community dwelling patients with depression, do websites offering information about depression or cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) reduce depressive symptoms?

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    randomised controlled trial.

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    Embedded ImageBlinding:

    unblinded.

    Embedded ImageFollow up period:

    6 weeks of intervention.

    Embedded ImageSetting:

    Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

    Embedded ImagePatients:

    525 patients 18–52 years of age (mean age 36 y, 71% women) who had symptoms of depression but were not receiving clinical care and had access to the internet.

    Embedded ImageIntervention:

    a website offering information about depression (BluePages, http://bluepages.anu.edu.au) (n = 165) or CBT (MoodGYM, http://moodgym.anu.edu.au) (n = 182), or an “attention placebo” (control) (n = 178). …

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