Comparing Telepsychiatry and in-Person Outcomes - Full Text View

Sponsors and Collaborators:	Lawson Health Research Institute Ontario Mental Health Foundation NORTH Network
Information provided by:	Lawson Health Research Institute
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00292058

Purpose

Psychiatric consultation and short-term follow-up will produce equivalent clinical outcomes and be less costly when provided via videoconferencing (telepsychiatry) than when provided in-person.

Condition	Intervention
Psychiatric Disorders.	Device: Videoconference equipment (telepsychiatry)

MedlinePlus related topics: Mental Health

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Treatment, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title:	Comparing Patient Outcomes and Cost of Psychiatric Care Provided Through Videoconferencing With Psychiatric Care Provided in-Person.

Further study details as provided by Lawson Health Research Institute:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Brief Symptom Inventory
Cost of providing the psychiatric services

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Quality of Life Inventory
Client Satisfaction Questionnaire
Hospital Utilization

Estimated Enrollment:	495
Study Start Date:	August 2001
Estimated Study Completion Date:	August 2004

Detailed Description:

We predict that patients referred by their family physician for a psychiatric consultation and, if needed, short-term follow-up will have equivalent clinical outcomes when seen via telepsychiatry as compared to those patients seen in-person. We also predicted that telepsychiatry will be cheaper than in-person care.Study Design: a single-centre equivalence trial.We will use a sample size calculation and analytical methods that are specifically tailored for equivalence trials.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years to 65 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

patients referred by their family physicians for psychiatric consultation
scores in the dysfunctional range on the Brief Symptom Inventory

Exclusion Criteria:

patients incapable of consenting to the research
patients referred for medico-legal or insurance reports

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00292058

Locations

Canada, Ontario
Thunder Bay Regional Health Science Centre
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Sponsors and Collaborators

Lawson Health Research Institute

Ontario Mental Health Foundation

NORTH Network

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Richard L O'Reilly, M.B.

Lawson Health Research Institute

More Information

Study ID Numbers:	07911E, 7764101, R2354A01
Study First Received:	February 14, 2006
Last Updated:	February 14, 2006
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00292058
Health Authority:	Canada: Health Canada

Keywords provided by Lawson Health Research Institute:

Telepsychiatry
Videoconference
Psychiatric consultation
Equivalence trial

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Mental Disorders

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 14, 2009