ArticleCrohn's & colitis 3602020
TELEmedicine for Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease (TELE-IBD) Does Not Improve Depressive Symptoms or General Quality of Life Compared With Standard Care at Tertiary Referral Centers.
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- Evidence for the Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in the Treatment of Patients With Noncommunicable Diseases: Systematic Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2025Pooled it
- The effectiveness of continuity of care in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review.BMC gastroenterology · 2024Pooled it
- Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using E-health Technologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2023Pooled it
- Patient education interventions for the management of inflammatory bowel disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Remote care through telehealth for people with inflammatory bowel disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Role of Telemedicine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Models of outpatient care delivery in inflammatory bowel disease: a scoping review.Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Nutritional psychology and inflammatory bowel disease: a narrative review of gut-brain axis interactions.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Telemedicine in inflammatory bowel diseases: A new brick in the medicine of the future?World journal of methodology · 2023Review
- The 2023 Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada: Access to and Models of Care.Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology · 2023Review
- Are we ready for telemonitoring inflammatory bowel disease? A review of advances, enablers, and barriers.World journal of gastroenterology · 2023Review
- A Self-management SMS Text Messaging Intervention for People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Feasibility and Acceptability Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Telemonitoring for patients with inflammatory bowel disease amid the COVID-19 pandemic-A cost-effectiveness analysis.PloS one · 2022Article
- Remote Monitoring Empowerment of Patients with IBDs during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundDepression is common in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and contributes to poor quality of life (QoL). The use of information technology for the remote management of patients with IBD is growing, but little is known about its impact on depressive symptoms (DS) and QoL. We aimed to evaluate the impact of telemedicine on DS and generic QoL in IBD patients.
methodsWe analyzed data from the Telemedicine for Patients with IBD (TELE-IBD) study. During this 12-month clinical trial, patients were randomized to receive text message-based telemedicine weekly (TELE-IBD W), every other week (TELE-IBD EOW), or to standard care. Depressive symptoms and QoL were assessed over time with the Mental Health Inventory 5 (MHI-5) and the Short Form 12 (SF-12), respectively. We compared the change in MHI-5 and SF-12 (with separate physical (PCS) and mental component summary (MCS) scores) between the study arms.
resultsA total of 217 participants were included in this analysis. After 1 year, there was no significant difference in the change in MHI-5 (TELE-IBD W +3.0 vs TELE-IBD EOW +0.7 vs standard care +3.4;
conclusionsText message-based telemedicine does not improve DS or QoL when compared with standard care in IBD patients treated at tertiary referral centers. Further studies are needed to determine whether telemedicine improves DS or QoL in settings with few resources.
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