Patient portal use among veterans with depression: Associations with symptom severity and demographic characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient portals can support self-management behaviors and increase continuity of care. It is therefore important to understand how individuals with depression are interacting with patient portals, to ensure that they have access to tools that can improve outcomes. The purpose of the current retrospective analysis was to examine associations between symptom severity, demographic characteristics and patient portal adoption and use among Veterans with depression diagnoses.

Methods

Data were collected within a larger retrospective analysis of use of the Veterans Health Administration patient portal, My HealtheVet (MHV). The final sample included 3053 Veterans with diagnoses of depression and at least two measures of depressive symptoms. Regressions tested whether depr

SUBMITTER: Connolly SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9373006 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature