Adherence With Online Therapy vs Face-to-Face Therapy and With Online Therapy vs Care as Usual: Secondary Analysis of Two Randomized Controlled Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adherence to internet-delivered interventions targeting mental health such as online psychotherapeutic aftercare is important for the intervention's impact. High dropout rates limit the impact and generalizability of findings. Baseline differences may be putting patients at risk for dropping out, making comparisons between online with face-to-face (F2F) therapy and care as usual (CAU) necessary to examine.

Objective

This study investigated adherence to online, F2F, and CAU interventions as well as study dropout among these groups and the subjective evaluation of the therapeutic relationship. Sociodemographic, social-cognitive, and health-related variables were considered.

Methods

In a randomized controlled trial, 6023 patients were recruited, and 300 comple

SUBMITTER: Lippke S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8600425 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature