A Transdiagnostic Community-Based Mental Health Treatment for Comorbid Disorders: Development and Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial among Burmese Refugees in Thailand

In a randomized controlled trial, Paul Bolton and colleagues investigate whether a transdiagnostic community-based intervention is effective for improving mental health symptoms among Burmese refugees in Thailand. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

• Publication year

  2014

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  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2014-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001757PMID 25386945PMCID 4227644
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