Preliminary evaluation of PTSD Coach, a smartphone app for post-traumatic stress symptoms.
PTSD Coach is a mobile application (app) designed to help individuals who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms better understand and self-manage their symptoms. It has wide-scale use (over 130,000 downloads in 78 countries) and very favorable reviews but has yet to be evaluated. There...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 179; no. 1; pp. 12 - 19 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2014
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