The use of telecommunications--telephone, computer, videoconferencing equipment--to provide mental health services at a distance has grown rapidly. This review encompasses reports from programs that provide telepsychiatry services, including telephone- and computer- based education and support services, telephone screening for dementia, and the use of videoconferencing to provide psychiatric co...

OBJECTIVE A review of systematic reviews of the effectiveness and feasibility of videoconference-based telepsychiatry services for resource constrained environments was conducted. Specifically with the aim of producing an evidence-based review of the effectiveness and feasibility of videoconference-based telepsychiatry services in resource constrained countries like South Africa. METHODS Eigh...

The progress of child and adolescent psychiatry has been greatly influenced by the development and implementation of diagnostic reliability studies. The key components of these studies have been the use of standardized structured interviews, the use of trained interviewers, and reliability designs that confirm the level of interrater reliability for a diagnosis or a number of diagnoses in a spe...

Seattle Children's Hospital is a tertiary referral hospital that has provided telepsychiatry to seven partner sites in the north-west since 2001. Service utilization data, patient demographics and diagnoses were collected for the period from the service inception in October 2001 until November 2007. During the study period, 701 patients were treated with a mean of 2.8 appointments per patient (...

Telepsychiatry is an established, effective, and increasingly used component of modern mental health care. Recent legal developments designed to control the growth of more controversial practices, such as issuing prescriptions over the Internet, may have chilling effects on the continued provision of responsible telepsychiatry. Although the policies behind these statutory and regulatory changes...

Background: Telemedicine is one of the most modern and fastest-growing branches medicine. The common form video consultation. We distinguish between synchronous asynchronous telepsychiatry. This study aims to show benefits using telepsychiatry services, challenges it poses users, evaluate its use against traditional therapy. Materials methods: A review literature from 1956-2023 in EMBASE, OpenK...

A shortage of psychiatrists threatens significantly to worsen treatment for the mentally ill. The nation’s psychiatric workforce is in crisis. Currently, 77% of counties in the United States have a severe psychiatrist shortage, and, with 50% of psychiatrists over the age of 55, the situation is likely to worsen. Public mental health systems, which are losing traditional advantages such as gener...

Telepsychiatry could offer a viable medical service to remote or isolated social communities if it does not generate adverse reactions such as delusional ideation, particularly in patients in settlements without adequate exposure to mainstream culture and internet. We examined subjective reactions to telepsychiatry of randomly selected 84 psychiatric patients from remote locations in Ontario, C...

OBJECTIVE South Africa has a shortage of facilities and psychiatrists to assess adjudicative competence of prisoners awaiting assessment under sections 77 to 79 of the Criminal Procedures Act of 1977. Various solutions have been proposed by the Department of Health. The recent linking of a Magistrate's court and a prison by videoconferencing offers the opportunity to implement a forensic teleps...

Videoconference telepsychiatry provides an alternative for the psychiatric treatment of mental health patients who reside in remote communities. The objective of this study was to compare institutional ambulatory and hospitalization costs, treatment adherence, patient and physician satisfaction, and treatment safety between mental healthcare via videoconferencing and care provided in person. Da...