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Efficacy of Telepsychiatry in the Treatment of Depression

NCT00012610 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 119

Last updated 2015-04-07

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Summary

Telepsychiatry is a novel means of providing expert psychiatric treatment to patients who live far from a source of care. If it can be demonstrated that treatment via telepsychiatry is as effective as in-person treatment, then many individuals with psychiatric illness will have easy access to psychiatric care, even if they live in geographically remote areas.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Telepsychiatry

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Paul E. Ruskin, MD · Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Completion
2000-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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