Live two‐way video versus face‐to‐face treatment for depression, anxiety, and obsessive‐compulsive disorder: A 24‐week randomized controlled trial

• Published in: Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences Vol. 78; no. 4; pp. 220 - 228
• Main Authors: Kishimoto, Taishiro, Kinoshita, Shotaro, Kitazawa, Momoko, Hishimoto, Akitoyo, Asami, Takeshi, Suda, Akira, Bun, Shogyoku, Kikuchi, Toshiaki, Sado, Mitsuhiro, Takamiya, Akihiro, Mimura, Masaru, Sato, Yasunori, Takemura, Ryo, Nagashima, Kengo, Nakamae, Takashi, Abe, Yoshinari, Kanazawa, Tetsufumi, Kawabata, Yasuo, Tomita, Hiroaki, Abe, Koichi, Hongo, Seiji, Kimura, Hiroshi, Sato, Aiko, Kida, Hisashi, Sakuma, Kei, Funayama, Michitaka, Sugiyama, Naoya, Hino, Kousuke, Amagai, Toru, Takamiya, Maki, Kodama, Hideyuki, Goto, Kenichi, Fujiwara, Shuichiro, Kaiya, Hisanobu, Nagao, Kiichiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 01.04.2024; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Anxiety; anxiety disorder; Anxiety disorders; Clinical trials; depression; long‐term treatment; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Patients; Smartphones; two‐way video; long-term treatment; two-way video; anxiety disorder; depression; obsessive-compulsive disorder

Aim Live two‐way video, easily accessible from home via smartphones and other devices, is becoming a new way of providing psychiatric treatment. However, lack of evidence for real‐world clinical setting effectiveness hampers its approval by medical insurance in some countries. Here, we conducted the...