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Telepsychiatry: Promise, potential, and challenges

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Malhotra, Savita, Chakrabarti, Subho, Shah, Ruchita·2013·Indian Journal of Psychiatry
DOI 10.4103/0019-5545.105499PMC PMC3574452
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Despite the high prevalence and potentially disabling consequences of mental disorders, specialized mental health services are extremely deficient, leading to the so-called 'Mental Health Gap'. Moreover, the services are concentrated in the urban areas, further worsening the rural-urban and tertiary primary care divide. Strengthening of and expanding the existing human resources and infrastructure, and integrating mental health into primary care appear to be the two major solutions. However, both the strategies are riddled with logistic difficulties and have a long gestation period. In such a scenario, telepsychiatry or e-mental health, defined as the use of information and communication technology to provide or support psychiatric services across distances, appears to be a promising answer. Due to its enormous potential, a review of the existing literature becomes imperative. An extensive search of literature was carried out and has been presented to delineate the modes of communication, acceptability and satisfaction, reliability, outcomes, cost-effectiveness, and legal and ethical challenges related to telepsychiatry. Telepsychiatry has been applied for direct patient care (diagnosis and management), consultation, and training, education, and research purposes. Both real-time, live interaction (synchronous) and store-forward (asynchronous) types of technologies have been used for these purposes. A growing amount of literature shows that training, supervision, and consultation by specialists to primary care physicians through telepsychiatry has several advantages. In this background, we have further focused on the models of telepsychiatry best suited for India, considering that mental health care can be integrated into primary care and taken to the doorstep of patients in the community.

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  1. Wootton R, Craig J, Patterson V. Introduction to Telemedicine. 2 nd ed. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press; 2006.
  2. Ameen, 2004, The internet revolution: Implications for mental health professionals, Indian J Soc Psychiatry, 16

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Authors
Malhotra, S., Chakrabarti, S., & Shah, R.
Affiliations
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (IN)
Corresponding author
Malhotra, Savita
ORCID
Venue
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Published
2013
Volume
55
Issue
1
Pages
3
ISSN
0019-5545 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.4103/0019-5545.105499
PMC
PMC3574452
OpenAlex
W2077680807
Cited by
117
References
83
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FWCI
7.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-sa
Locations
  • Indian Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
Keywords
telepsychiatry, e-mental health, mental health gap, urban-rural differences, integration of mental health into primary care, psychiatric consultation, synchronous telemedicine, cost-effectiveness, legal and ethical issues, mental health professionals, India

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