Delivering Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Young Adults With Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Using a Fully Automated Conversational Agent (Woebot): A Randomized Controlled Trial
Fitzpatrick KK, Darcy A, Vierhile M. · JMIR mental health · 2017 · randomised controlled trial
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- Delivering Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Young Adults With Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Using a Fully Automated Conversational Agent (Woebot): A Randomized Controlled Trial
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- Fitzpatrick KK, Darcy A, Vierhile M (2017). "Delivering Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Young Adults With Symptoms of Depression via a Fully Automated Conversational Agent (Woebot): A Randomized Clinical Trial." JMIR Mental Health 4(2):e19 — Users disclosed mental health concerns to AI chatbot at rates comparable to human clinicians with reduced stigma
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©Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick, Alison Darcy, Molly Vierhile. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org), 06.06.2017. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Mental Health, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mental.jmir.org/ , as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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