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Trine Stub1, Audun Campell Irgens2, Anne Helen Hansen3,4

  • 1Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Tromso, Norway trine.stub@uit.no.

BMJ Open
|September 15, 2022
PubMed
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Keywords:
Adverse eventsCOMPLEMENTARY MEDICINEClinical trialsDepression & mood disordersMENTAL HEALTHPSYCHIATRY

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