Telehealth treatment of patients with major depressive disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic: Comparative safety, patient satisfaction, and effectiveness to prepandemic in-person treatment

Zimmerman, Mark; D’Avanzato, Catherine; King, Brittany T.

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2022.12.015

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The Journey From Nonimmersive to Immersive Multiuser Applications in Mental Health Care: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Fajnerova,

Hejtmánek,

Sedlák

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BACKGROUND Over the past 25 years, the development of multi-user applications has seen significant advancements and challenges. The technological development in this field has emerged from simple chatrooms, through videoconferencing tools to the creation of complex, interactive, and often multisensory virtual worlds. These multi-user technologies have gradually found their way into mental health care, where they are used in both dyadic counseling and group interventions. However, some limitations in hardware capabilities, user experience designs, and scalability may have hindered the effectiveness of these applications. OBJECTIVE The present systematic review aimed at summarizing the progress made and the potential future directions in this field while evaluating various factors and perspectives relevant to remote multi-user interventions. METHODS The systematic review was performed based on Web of Science (WoS) and PubMed database search covering articles in the English language published from January 1999 to March 2024 related to multi-user mental health interventions. Several inclusion and exclusion criteria were determined before and during the records screening process performed in several steps. RESULTS We have identified 49 records exploring the multi-user applications in mental health care, ranging from text-based interventions to interventions set in fully immersive environments. The number of publications exploring this topic is growing since 2015, with a large increase during COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of digital interventions were delivered in a form of video-conferencing, with only a few implementing immersive environments. The studies utilized professional or peer supported group interventions or a combination of both approaches. The research studies targeted diverse groups and topics, from nursing mothers to psychiatric disorders or various minority groups. Most group sessions happened weekly, or in case of the peer-suport groups, often with flexible schedule. CONCLUSIONS We have identified many benefits to multi-user digital interventions for mental healthcare. These approaches provide distributed, always available and affordable peer support that can be used to deliver necessary help to people living outside of areas where in-person interventions are easily available. While immersive virtual environments have become a common tool in many areas of psychiatric care, such as exposure therapy, our results suggest that this technology in multi-user settings is still in its early stages. Most identified studies investigated mainstream technologies, such as video conferencing or text-based support, substituting immersive experience for convenience and ease of use. While many studies discuss useful features of virtual environments in group interventions, such as anonymity or stronger engagement with the group, we discuss persisting issues with these technologies, which currently prevent their full adoption. CLINICALTRIAL N/A

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Section: Table 2 -Studies Using Group Digital Interventions For 3 And...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Journey From Nonimmersive to Immersive Multiuser Applications in Mental Health Care: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Fajnerova,

Hejtmánek,

Sedlák

et al. 2024

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“…The difficulty in accessing examinations and instrumental investigations during the lockdown period for the COVID-19 pandemic made it necessary to spread the use of televisiting and the telemonitoring of patients, accelerating a process already triggered by advances in communication technologies [ 50 ]. In Italy, it is estimated that more than 80% of epileptologists, neurologists and child neuropsychiatrists used remote systems during the pandemic to monitor their patients’ conditions and ensure proper therapeutic adherence [ 12 , 51 ].…”

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“…Experience in pediatric, and even more so in neonatal, electroencephalography is not uniformly widespread throughout the country, and technological advances now allow teleconsultation even in the emergency–urgency and deferred emergency setting. In this context, a multicenter and multidisciplinary project has been coordinated by the Italian National Institute of Health, which has produced national guidelines for teleneurophysiology, with ample space for applications in pediatric and neonatal ages [ 12 , 51 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The methods of providing health and social-health services enabled by telemedicine are fundamental in this sense, helping to ensure equity in access to care in remote areas, support for the management of chronic conditions, a channel of access to highly specialized, better continuity of care through multidisciplinary comparison and a fundamental aid for emergency–urgency services [ 9 , 10 ]. Moreover, telemedicine can improve patients’ quality of life through self-management solutions and remote monitoring, as well as for the purpose of an early dehospitalization [ 11 , 12 ].…”

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Use of Telemedicine Healthcare Systems in Children and Adolescents with Chronic Disease or in Transition Stages of Life: Consensus Document of the Italian Society of Telemedicine (SIT), of the Italian Society of Preventive and Social Pediatrics (SIPPS), of the Italian Society of Pediatric Primary Care (SICuPP), of the Italian Federation of Pediatric Doctors (FIMP) and of the Syndicate of Family Pediatrician Doctors (SIMPeF)

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Rosafio

Antodaro

et al. 2023

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Telemedicine is considered an excellent tool to support the daily and traditional practice of the health profession, especially when referring to the care and management of chronic patients. In a panorama in which chronic pathologies with childhood onset are constantly increasing and the improvement of treatments has allowed survival for them into adulthood, telemedicine and remote assistance are today considered effective and convenient solutions both for the chronic patient, who thus receives personalized and timely assistance, and for the doctors, who reduce the need for direct intervention, hospitalizations and consequent management costs. This Consensus document, written by the main Italian Scientific Societies involved in the use of telemedicine in pediatrics, has the objectives to propose an organizational model based on the relationships between the actors who participate in the provision of a telemedicine service aimed at minors with chronic pathologies, identifying specific project links between the areas of telemedicine in the developmental age from the first 1000 days of life to the age adult. The future scenario will have to be able to integrate digital innovation in order to offer the best care to patients and citizens. It will have to be able to provide the involvement of patients from the very beginning of the design of any care pathway, increasing where possible the proximity of the health service to citizens.

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“…While digital tools have been patchily established for several decades, the global public health challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed their use as an essential mechanism not only to strengthen emergency response, but also to ensure the continuity of health services [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. In particular, the periods of limited mobility have underlined the need to resort to telemedicine, i.e., the provision of health-related services and information through information and communication technologies (ICTs), as a critical factor for expanding access to services and promoting continuity of care [ 4 , 5 , 6 ].…”

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Information and Training on the Use of Telemedicine in Pediatric Population: Consensus Document of the Italian Society of Telemedicine (SIT), of the Italian Society of Preventive and Social Pediatrics (SIPPS), of the Italian Society of Pediatric Primary Care (SICuPP), of the Italian Federation of Pediatric Doctors (FIMP), and of the Syndicate of Family Pediatrician Doctors (SIMPeF)

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Rosafio

Antodaro

et al. 2023

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Telemedicine has entered the daily lives of doctors, although the digital skills of healthcare professionals still remain a goal to be achieved. For the purpose of a large-scale development of telemedicine, it is necessary to create trust in the services it can offer and to favor their acceptance by healthcare professionals and patients. In this context, information for the patient regarding the use of telemedicine, the benefits that can be derived from it, and the training of healthcare professionals and patients for the use of new technologies are fundamental aspects. This consensus document is a commentary that has the aim of defining the information on and training aspects of telemedicine for pediatric patients and their caregivers, as well as pediatricians and other health professionals who deal with minors. For the present and the future of digital healthcare, there is a need for a growth in the skills of professionals and a lifelong learning approach throughout the professional life. Therefore, information and training actions are important to guarantee the necessary professionalism and knowledge of the tools, as well as a good understanding of the interactive context in which they are used. Furthermore, medical skills can also be integrated with the skills of various professionals (engineers, physicists, statisticians, and mathematicians) to birth a new category of health professionals responsible for building new semiotics, identifying criteria for predictive models to be integrated into clinical practice, standardizing clinical and research databases, and defining the boundaries of social networks and new communication technologies within health services.

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Telehealth treatment of patients with major depressive disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic: Comparative safety, patient satisfaction, and effectiveness to prepandemic in-person treatment

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The Journey From Nonimmersive to Immersive Multiuser Applications in Mental Health Care: Systematic Review (Preprint)

The Journey From Nonimmersive to Immersive Multiuser Applications in Mental Health Care: Systematic Review (Preprint)

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