Home-Based Outpatient Telepsychiatry to Improve Adherence With Treatment Appointments: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined whether patients who had been nonadherent with outpatient appointments and who were randomly assigned to receive treatment through a telepsychiatry intervention (home-based video teleconferencing) would show improvement in adherence to appointments, compared with a treatment-as-usual group.

Methods

Participants (N=22) were randomly assigned to home-based video teleconferencing or to outpatient treatment as usual during a six-month study. The primary outcome measure was improvement in visit adherence, which was analyzed using a two-sample t test.

Results

Percentage improvement in visit adherence did not differ significantly between the telepsychiatry and treatment-as-usual groups (14%, compared with 15%). A greater number of participants i

SUBMITTER: Shulman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5848466 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature