Secured Internet-mediated Psychotherapy With Psychiatry Patients

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychiatric Disorders

Treatments: Device: eTherapy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00184340

FORSKPRO-ID p03000217

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is the second phase (Phase B) of the main project "Bank for Thoughts", which has the following aims:

1. Improvement of software for secured (encrypted and access-controlled) asynchronous text-based communication within health services. (Adjustments for use in psychiatry.)
2. Open clinical trials with Internet-mediated psychotherapy or counselling in out-patient child and adolescent psychiatry.
3. Development of indications and precautions for text-based Internet-mediated psychotherapy.

Full description

This phase (Phase B) concentrates on qualitative evaluation of open clinical single case trials using asynchronous Internet-mediated text-dialogue for psychotherapeutic purposes.

Single patients in differing treatment phases, conditions, age and sex categories are interviewed after using Internet-contact as a supplementary tool in psychotherapy. Their therapists are interviewed as well.

The purpose is systematically gathering single-case experiences with the tool, to build a hypothesis for research and preliminary guidelines for experimental clinical use of Internet-mediated psychotherapy.

Enrollment: 6 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Motivation for e-mail contact
• Therapist evaluation for suitability

Exclusion criteria

• Paranoia
• Psychosis
• Eating disorders
• Addictive problems
• Denying or concealing symptoms