Fabian Lenhard , Lisa Wahlström Amnéus , Ida Viklund , Tove Hultstrand , Lena Lundholm , Thomas Tegenmark , Johan Skånberg , Lorena Fernández de la Cruz , Mikael Landén , Lars-Göran Öst
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Remote mental healthcare before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A retrospective observational study using routine outcome measurements
Background
Severe disruptions in mental healthcare services were reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little data are available on whether services were able to maintain treatment efficacy during this period.
Objective
The aims of this study were to 1) compare outpatient mental healthcare treatment effects before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2) explore whether the proportion of remote visits affected treatment outcomes.
Methods
Using a clinical cohort from two outpatient mental healthcare clinics in Stockholm, Sweden, we analyzed data from 2290 patients to compare treatment outcomes in years 2017–2019 (“before” the COVID-19 pandemic) vs. years 2020–2022 (“during” the COVID-19 pandemic). Primary outcomes were symptom reductions on patient-reported measures of depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Results
We found a significant increase of remote visits during the COVID-19 pandemic (OR = 10.9, 95 % CI [10.49–11.27]). There were no statistically significant differences on treatment outcomes in the periods before vs. during the pandemic for any of the disorders under study. The proportion of remote visits did not have an effect on treatment outcomes.
Conclusions
This large-scale naturalistic study indicates that treatment outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic were maintained despite unprecedented disruptions.
期刊介绍:
Founded in 1961 to report on the latest work in psychiatry and cognate disciplines, the Journal of Psychiatric Research is dedicated to innovative and timely studies of four important areas of research:
(1) clinical studies of all disciplines relating to psychiatric illness, as well as normal human behaviour, including biochemical, physiological, genetic, environmental, social, psychological and epidemiological factors;
(2) basic studies pertaining to psychiatry in such fields as neuropsychopharmacology, neuroendocrinology, electrophysiology, genetics, experimental psychology and epidemiology;
(3) the growing application of clinical laboratory techniques in psychiatry, including imagery and spectroscopy of the brain, molecular biology and computer sciences;