Feasibility of an eHealth service to support collaborative depression care: Results of a pilot study

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Meglic, Matic ^a   Furlan, Mirjana ^b   Kuzmanic, Marja ^a   Kozel, Dejan ^a   Baraga, Dusan ^c   Kuhar, Irma ^d   Kosir, Branko ^e   Iljaz, Rade ^f   Sarotar, Brigita Novak ^g   Dernovsek, Mojca Zvezdana ^g   Marusic, Andrej ^a   Eysenbach, Gunther ^h,i   Brodnik, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^b Health Care Centre Celjenje   (Slovenia)

^c Primary Health Care Centre Cerknica   (Slovenia)

^d Psihiatricna Ambulanta Vrhnika ^*  (Slovenia)

^e Ambulanta Kosir doo   (Slovenia)

^f Primary Health Care Centre Brezice   (Slovenia)

^g UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaborative care; Depression; Feasibility study; Information systems; Internet; Medication adherence; Patient care management; Pilot study; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHIATRY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHIATRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651293524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1510     Document Type: Article

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