Psychiatrist experience of remote consultations by telephone in an outpatient psychiatric department during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a shift globally from face-to-face consultations to remote consultations. In our department, remote consultations have taken in the form of telephone consultations. In this paper, we set out to study a group of Irish psychiatrists' experience of these consultations.

Methods

We identified recurrent themes in the existing literature on doctors' experience of telephone consultations with a view to determining the applicability of these themes to a group of Irish psychiatrists. A questionnaire was developed based on themes in the literature. This was sent to all psychiatrists working in a busy psychiatric service in Dublin.

Results

The questionnaire response rate was 72% (n = 26/35). Diagnostic challenges, the

SUBMITTER: Olwill C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7283108 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature