Characteristics of Adults with Anxiety or Depression Treated at an Internet Clinic: Comparison with a National Survey and an Outpatient Clinic
Nickolai Titov, Gavin Andrews, Alice Kemp et al. · 2010
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Nickolai Titov, Gavin Andrews, Alice Kemp and co-authors published this mental health study in PLOS ONE in 2010. Internet clinics for anxiety and depression were growing, but critics worried their users might be milder cases who differ from typical patients. If so, results from online trials might not apply to ordinary care.
The authors profiled more than seven hundred applicants to an Australian internet clinic and compared them with patients at a specialist outpatient clinic and with cases from a national survey. The groups were compared on background details and symptom severity measured with standard scales. Titov and colleagues test whether online patients are a fair stand-in for the wider anxious and depressed population. Their answer matters for how much weight health systems should give to evidence from internet treatment trials.
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| CREATOR | Nickolai Titov, Gavin Andrews, Alice Kemp et al. |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2010 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010885