ReviewThe Psychiatric quarterly2018
Are Digitally Delivered Psychological Interventions for Depression the Way Forward? A Review.
Review in The Psychiatric quarterly, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparing Email Versus Text Messaging as Delivery Platforms for Supporting Patients With Major Depressive Disorder: Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR formative research · 2024Trial
- A Web- and Mobile App-Based Mental Health Promotion Intervention Comparing Email, Short Message Service, and Videoconferencing Support for a Healthy Cohort: Randomized Comparative Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Trial
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- Are we ready for telemonitoring inflammatory bowel disease? A review of advances, enablers, and barriers.World journal of gastroenterology · 2023Review
- Acceptability of a digital return-to-work intervention for common mental disorders: a qualitative study on service user perspectives.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- Digital Interventions for PTSD Symptoms in the General Population: a Review.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2020Review
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Digitally delivered interventions aim to make psychological treatments more widely accessible and minimize clinician input. Although their clinical efficacy against wait-list, control conditions is well established, comparative outcome studies are a much better way to examine if psychotherapies are equally effective. Such reviews are still relatively lacking. The aim of this review was therefore to evaluate the effectiveness of digitally delivered psychological therapies over traditionally delivered (face-to-face) ones to alleviate symptoms in adults experiencing sub-threshold and clinical depression. Findings showed that digital interventions produced consistently clinically significant improvements in depressive symptoms. Moreover, the level of therapist contact or expertise did not affect much treatment effectiveness. Future research is pertinent to investigate further the influence of therapist input, the reasons for dropout, how to improve users' experience and therapeutic engagement and maintain improvements at post-treatment.
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