NCT00184340

Secured Internet-mediated Psychotherapy With Psychiatry Patients

Secured Internet-mediated Psychotherapy With Psychiatry Patients. Software Improvement, Clinical Trials and Development of Clinical Precautions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 6 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Psychiatric Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	eTherapy	secured e-mail system between patient and therapist

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-01-01
• Primary completion: 2006-01-01
• Completion: 2006-01-01
• First posted: 2005-09-16
• Last updated: 2017-02-09

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Norway