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Sociology > Depression |
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"Bev Thornton" |
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26 Jun 2005 10:28:04 PM |
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[NEWS] Patients need reminders for online depression self-help |
27 Jun 2005
Websites that only offer self-help for people suffering from
depression can be effective as those that also offer external clinical
guidance, as long as patients are reminded to use them, according to a
new study published this week.
Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
studied a group of 250 people with self-diagnosed depression, and sent
telephone or postcard reminders to a randomised group asking them to
visit their Overcoming Depression on the InterNet (ODIN) site over a
period of four months.
Among participants who received reminders by telephone or postcard,
there was a 20% reduction in those who moved from clinically depressed
to normal after a period of 16 weeks. This was in contract to the
researchers' previous study, in which subjects were not reminded to
use ODIN, and usage dropped off significantly after a few weeks.
"The low incremental costs of delivering this Internet program makes
it feasible to offer this or similar programs to very large
populations where Internet access is widespread," argued the
researchers. "Interventions with a small average effect may have
substantial public health impact when applied to a large number of
people."
The ODIN system, which was developed by the researchers, is based
around Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques. However, it is
differs from other depression therapy websites in that it does not
provide mental health counselling but is described as "pure
self-help".
<http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/news/item.cfm?ID=1282>
<http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=14742346>
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| User: "Contrarian" |
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| Title: Re: [NEWS] Patients need reminders for online depression self-help |
30 Jun 2005 03:20:01 PM |
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Bev Thornton <Reply-To@not.invalid> wrote:
27 Jun 2005
Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
studied a group of 250 people with self-diagnosed depression, and sent
telephone or postcard reminders to a randomised group asking them to
visit their Overcoming Depression on the InterNet (ODIN) site over a
period of four months.
Kaiser really likes no-professional-involvement type approaches.
OTOH, postcards would be real nice. I try and mail some out
to ppl I know.
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| User: "Contrarian" |
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| Title: Re: [NEWS] Patients need reminders for online depression self-help |
30 Jun 2005 08:42:49 PM |
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Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com> wrote:
OTOH, postcards would be real nice. I try and mail some out
to ppl I know.
And now I can't find the library map poster I saved for
some ppl. The hazards of cleaning up one's abode.
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but the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In... HST (1967)
when i got to the edge , i built a deck % (2005)
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| User: "Youll Never Know" |
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| Title: Re: [NEWS] Patients need reminders for online depression self-help |
01 Jul 2005 07:14:40 PM |
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:20:01 GMT, Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com>
wrote:
Bev Thornton <Reply-To@not.invalid> wrote:
27 Jun 2005
Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
studied a group of 250 people with self-diagnosed depression, and sent
telephone or postcard reminders to a randomised group asking them to
visit their Overcoming Depression on the InterNet (ODIN) site over a
period of four months.
Kaiser really likes no-professional-involvement type approaches.
Max Headroom with a stethoscope
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