Taishiro Kishimoto, Shotaro Kinoshita, Momoko Kitazawa, Akitoyo Hishimoto, Takeshi Asami, Akira Suda, Shogyoku Bun, Toshiaki Kikuchi, Mitsuhiro Sado, Akihiro Takamiya, Masaru Mimura, Yasunori Sato, Ryo Takemura, Kengo Nagashima, Takashi Nakamae, Yoshinari Abe, Tetsufumi Kanazawa, Yasuo Kawabata, Hiroaki Tomita, Koichi Abe, Seiji Hongo, Hiroshi Kimura, Aiko Sato, Hisashi Kida, Kei Sakuma, Michitaka Funayama, Naoya Sugiyama, Kousuke Hino, Toru Amagai, Maki Takamiya, Hideyuki Kodama, Kenichi Goto, Shuichiro Fujiwara, Hisanobu Kaiya, Kiichiro Nagao
AIM: Live two-way video, easily accessible from home via smartphones and other devices, is becoming a new way of providing psychiatric treatment. However, lack of evidence for real-world clinical setting effectiveness hampers its approval by medical insurance in some countries. Here, we conducted the first large-scale pragmatic, randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of long-term treatment for multiple psychiatric disorders via two-way video using smartphones and other devices, which are currently the primary means of telecommunication...
December 15, 2023: Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences