[Description of a telehealth mental health programme in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia]. / Descripción de un programa de telesalud mental en el marco de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Colombia.
Rev Colomb Psiquiatr
; 2022 May 27.
Article
in Spanish
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1946384
ABSTRACT
Background:
A telehealth mental health programme was designed at the LivingLab of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad de Antioquia [University of Antioquia].Objectives:
To describe the development and operation of the programme and evaluate the satisfaction of the patients treated during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.Methods:
Descriptive study that details the development of the programme. Data were extracted from medical records to describe the patients who were treated. A satisfaction scale was applied to a random sample and the data were summarised with descriptive statistics.Results:
In March 2020 and August 2021, 10,229 patients were treated, with 20,276 treated by telepsychology and 4,164 by psychiatry, 1,808 by telepsychiatry and 2,356 by tele-expertise, with a total of 6,312 visits. The most frequent diagnoses were depressive (36.8%), anxiety (12.0%), and psychotic (10.7%) disorders. Respondents were satisfied to the point that more than 93% would recommend it to another person.Conclusions:
The LivingLab telehealth mental health programme allowed for the care of patients with mental health problems and disorders in Antioquia during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, and there was a high degree of satisfaction among the beneficiaries. Therefore it could be adopted in mental health care.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Randomized controlled trials
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Colombia
Language:
Spanish
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.rcp.2022.04.003
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