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Psychiatric Consultation Through Videoconference in a Primary Care Setting

NCT00298961 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2008-05-21

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Summary

In our study we will aim to examine the issues of cost analysis, quality of life, clinical efficacy and satisfaction of psychiatric consultations through videoconference in a primary care setting in comparison with in-person psychiatric treatment and primary care only. The main hypotheses of the study are: Satisfaction of the patients will increase, the use of telepsychiatry will reduce the costs for the primary and mental health care centers as well as for the patients, the treatment will be as effective as in-person treatment, the number of patients referred to mental health treatment will be higher than that of the previous year, quality of life will improve and that there will be a stigma reduction of mental illness.

Conditions

  • Remote Consultation
  • Community Psychiatry

Interventions

DEVICE

Videoconference equipment FALCON/IP

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Galil Center for Telemedicine and Medical Informatics

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mahmud Jabarin, MD · Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Israel

  • Ilan Modai, MD, MHA · Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Israel

  • Ehud Susser, MD · Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Israel

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-05-31
Completion
2007-11-30

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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