Cost-effectiveness of Internet Interventions Compared With Treatment as Usual for People With Mental Disorders: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

• Published in: Journal of medical Internet research Vol. 25; no. 2; p. e38204
• Main Authors: Rohrbach, Pieter J, Dingemans, Alexandra E, Evers, Catharine, Van Furth, Eric F, Spinhoven, Philip, Aardoom, Jiska J, Lähde, Irene, Clemens, Fleur C, Van den Akker-Van Marle, M Elske
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Journal of Medical Internet Research 05.01.2023; Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor; JMIR Publications
• Subjects: Aggregate data; Bias; Bibliotherapy; Clinical outcomes; Clinical trials; Cognition & reasoning; Comparative analysis; Cost analysis; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Economic aspects; GDP; Generalizability; Gross Domestic Product; Health status; Humans; Internet; Internet-Based Intervention; Intervention; Literature reviews; Medical economics; Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Mental Disorders - therapy; Mental health; Mentally ill; Meta-analysis; Multimedia; Quality of Life; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Review; Smartphones; Subject heading schemes; Systematic review; Telemedicine; United States > US; cost-benefit analysis; mental health; mobile phone; meta-analysis; methods of economic evaluation; internet-based interventions; economic evaluation; systematic review; eHealth; mental disorders; randomized controlled trial

The economic costs of mental disorders for society are huge. Internet-based interventions are often coined as cost-effective alternatives to usual care, but the evidence is mixed. The aim was to review the literature on the cost-effectiveness of internet interventions for mental disorders compared w...