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Stress management for middle managers via an acceptance and commitment-based smartphone application: A randomized controlled trial

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It is indicated that a smartphone administered stress intervention based on ACT can reduce perceived stress and increase general health among Swedish middle managers in the private sector.
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This article is published in Internet Interventions.The article was published on 2014-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 118 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Stress management & Acceptance and commitment therapy.

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Work stress precipitates depression and anxiety in young, working women and men. Commentary

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of work stress on diagnosed depression and anxiety in young working adults was tested by the Dunedin study, a 1972-1973 longitudinal birth cohort assessed most recently in 2004-2005 at age 32 (n=972, 96% of 1015 cohort members still alive).
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The Use of Mobile Apps and SMS Messaging as Physical and Mental Health Interventions: Systematic Review

TL;DR: A systematic review of available mHealth apps and SMS services and their ever improving quality necessitates a systematic review in the area in reference to reduction of symptomology, adherence to intervention, and usability shows promising and emerging efficacy.
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The benefit of web- and computer-based interventions for stress : A systematic review and meta-analysis

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that Web- and computer-based stress-management interventions can be effective and have the potential to reduce stress-related mental health problems on a large scale and on a small-to-moderate range up to 6 months.
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Attrition and adherence in smartphone-delivered interventions for mental health problems: A systematic and meta-analytic review

TL;DR: Study attrition and low adherence are common, problematic, and may undermine the validity of findings in RCTs of smartphone-delivered interventions for mental health problems, and a better understanding of these phenomena is needed.
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A global measure of perceived stress.

TL;DR: The Perceived Stress Scale showed adequate reliability and, as predicted, was correlated with life-event scores, depressive and physical symptomatology, utilization of health services, social anxiety, and smoking-reduction maintenance and was a better predictor of the outcome in question than were life- event scores.
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Review of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change.

TL;DR: The ACT Model of Psychopathology and Human Suffering as discussed by the authors is a model of psychopathy and human suffering that is based on the Dilemma of human suffering and self-defusing self.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Model, processes and outcomes

TL;DR: There are not enough well-controlled studies to conclude that ACT is generally more effective than other active treatments across the range of problems examined, but so far the data are promising.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change

TL;DR: The ACT Model of Psychopathology and Human Suffering as discussed by the authors is a model of psychopathy and human suffering that is based on the Dilemma of human suffering and self-defusing self.
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