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ArticleFrontiers in digital health2020

Internet Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With or Without Face-to-Face Psychotherapy: A 12-Weeks Clinical Trial of Patients With Depression.

Katrin Rauen, Stefan Vetter, Amanda Eisele, Ewelina Biskup, Aba Delsignore, Michael Rufer, Steffi Weidt

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Article in Frontiers in digital health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02112266 (Online Assessment for Therapy Expectation and Quality of Life and Online Therapy of Depression), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02112266 nacompletednot on this map

Online Assessment for Therapy Expectation and Quality of Life and Online Therapy of Depression

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of ZurichRan2014 to 2016Enrolled272ConditionsDepressionArmsMail support, no mail support
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A COSMIN systematic review of generic patient-reported outcome measures in Switzerland.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Katrin RauenDepartment of Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Stefan VetterDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Amanda EiseleDepartment of Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Ewelina BiskupDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Frederico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
Aba DelsignoreFaculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Michael RuferDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Steffi WeidtDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
University Hospital of Zurich · CHShanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences · CNUniversity of Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Depressive disorders are a curable, global health problem. However, most patients remain untreated, and more and more patients use internet-based interventions, but it is unclear whether it is beneficial for ongoing face-to-face psychotherapy. Thus, we compared the outcome of internet cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) with (ICBT+) or without (ICBT) additional face-to-face outpatient psychotherapy in adult patients with moderate to severe depressive disorder. For this longitudinal interventional clinical trial (NCT02112266), 168 of 252 online recruited adults with depressive symptoms received ICBT+ (

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BDI-IIdepressionface-to-face psychotherapyICBTQoLtrialWHOQOL-BREF

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PMID34713017
PMCPMC8521970
OpenAlexW3036206603

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