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To compare the clinical efficacy, safety, and tolerability of telepsychiatry versus standard face-to-face psychiatric care.

September 1, 2023The British Journal of PsychiatryOpen Access

Telepsychiatry versus face-to-face treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

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To compare the clinical efficacy, safety, and tolerability of telepsychiatry versus standard face-to-face psychiatric care.
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials evaluating telepsychiatry against in-person treatment across diverse psychiatric conditions.
The primary endpoint was the mean change in standard symptom scale scores from baseline.
Secondary endpoints assessed safety, tolerability, and all-cause treatment discontinuation.
Telepsychiatry demonstrated symptom improvement across psychiatric disorders overall comparable to face-to-face interventions (p = 0.564).
Variability in relative efficacy emerged across specific individual psychiatric diagnoses, indicating selected conditions may respond preferentially to either remote or in-person therapy.

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Meta-analysis demonstrates similar overall symptom improvement between telepsychiatry and in-person care for psychiatric disorders, suggesting efficacy depends on specific diagnostic conditions.

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Hagi et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a01ec0c1adb974501cb0075 https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.86

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Meta-analysis demonstrates similar overall symptom improvement between telepsychiatry and in-person care for psychiatric disorders, suggesting efficacy depends on specific diagnostic conditions.

Telepsychiatry versus face-to-face treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

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Telepsychiatry versus face-to-face treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

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