SynthesisPsychological medicine2022
Telehealth
Synthesis in Psychological medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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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.
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Who cites it
34 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Telehealth Treatments of Common Psychological Disorders: An Overview and Meta-analysis.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Utilization of mental health services during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic - a systematic review and meta-analysis.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Pooled it
- Psychiatric Association of Türkiye Mood Disorders Section Depression Treatment Guideline - III: Treatment Approach for Depression Subtypes and Special Groups, Psychotherapies, and Psychosocial Interventions.Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry · 2026Guideline
- Different psychological interventions for perinatal depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Telehealth versus face-to-face delivery of speech language pathology services: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of telemedicine and telecare · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of telehealth care on escalation to emergency care: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of telemedicine and telecare · 2025Pooled it
- Virtual Service Delivery in Mental Health and Substance Use Care: A Systematic Review of Preference Elicitation Studies.Community mental health journal · 2025Pooled it
- Factors Influencing the Engagement with Electronic Mental Health Technologies: A Systematic Review of Reviews.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Comparison of Telephone and Video Telehealth Consultations: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Home-based transcranial direct current stimulation treatment for major depressive disorder: a fully remote phase 2 randomized sham-controlled trial.Nature medicine · 2025Trial
- Evaluation of the internet-based intervention "Selfapy" in participants with unipolar depression and the impact on quality of life: a randomized, parallel group study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Trial
- The Impact of Federally Funded Home Visiting Programs on Parental Mental Health: a Systematic Review.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Review
- At-Home Telehealth-Supported Subcutaneous Ketamine Therapy for Safety, Feasibility, and Clinical Outcomes in Adults With Moderate to Severe Depression, Anxiety, or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Large, Heterogeneous Cohort in the United States: Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Postpandemic Telehealth Use: Patterns and Barriers for Older Adults in the United States, 2024.American journal of public health · 2026Article
- Dietitian reflections on video consultations: a descriptive qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2026Article
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- Australian Clients' Perspectives on Accessing Alcohol and Other Drug Counselling via Telehealth: A Qualitative Study.Drug and alcohol review · 2026Article
- Telehealth and Pharmacotherapy: The Role of Synchronous and Novel Asynchronous Digital Health Tools in Psychiatry.Pharmaceutical medicine · 2025Review
- Changes in Work Impairment and Associated Cost Savings Among Employees Receiving Psychotherapy: Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2025Article
- A comparison of the impact of nurse-led education and telehealth interventions on mental health outcomes for ambulatory patients in Saudi Arabia.BMC nursing · 2025Article
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8 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
Ensuring continuity of care for patients with major depressive disorders poses multiple challenges. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials comparing real-time telehealth to face-to-face therapy for individuals with depression. We searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane Central (to November 2020), conducted a citation analysis (January 2021), and searched clinical trial registries (March 2021). We included randomised controlled trials comparing similar or identical care, delivered via real-time telehealth (phone, video) to face-to-face. Outcomes included: depression severity, quality of life, therapeutic alliance, and care satisfaction. Where data were sufficient, mean differences were calculated. Nine trials (1268 patients) were included. There were no differences between telehealth and face-to-face care for depression severity at post-treatment (SMD -0.04, 95% CI -0.21 to 0.13,
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