Comparing Telepsychiatry and In-person Outcomes

NCT ID: NCT00292058

Last Updated: 2019-09-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 495 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2001-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2004-08-31

Brief Summary

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.

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.

Conditions

Psychiatric Disorders

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Interventions

Videoconference equipment (telepsychiatry)

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility 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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Ontario Mental Health Foundation

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: collaborator

NORTH Network

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Principal Investigators

Richard L O'Reilly, M.B.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

Locations

Thunder Bay Regional Health Science Centre

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Countries

Canada

Other Identifiers

7764101

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

R2354A01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

07911E

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id