Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 69, Issue 1 , Pages 23-32 , July 2010

Psychological treatment of depressive symptoms in patients with medical disorders: A meta-analysis

  • Annemieke van Straten

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Psychology and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Clinical Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 20 598 89 70; fax: +31 20 598 87 58.
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  • Anna Geraedts

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Psychology and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, VU University Medical Center
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  • Gerhard Andersson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University, Sweden
    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Pim Cuijpers

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Psychology and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Received 4 June 2009 ,Revised 14 January 2010 ,Accepted 19 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.01.019

Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 69, Issue 1 , Pages 23-32 , July 2010

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