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Online Therapy Effective in Treating Depression
Scientists with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have shown that internet-based therapy programs are as effective as face-to-face therapies in combating the illness.
Patients in a clinician-assisted internet-based treatment program experienced rates of recovery similar to those achieved by face-to-face therapy, a study at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) found.
Moreover, the program dubbed the Sadness program required an average of only 111 minutes of clinician email contact per person over an eight-week period, significantly less than other comparable clinician-based therapies.
A paper outlining the study appears this week in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.
The results will come as a surprise to many people who believed internet-based programs wouldnt work in treating depression, said lead author of the study, Professor Gavin Andrews, from UNSWs School of Psychiatry.
We knew that the internet was successful at treating social phobias and other anxiety disorders but these conditions are, in many ways, low-hanging fruit.
It was assumed that depression would be more difficult because of the lack of motivation usually associated with the illness, he said.
But that simply wasnt the case.
In the study, Professor Andrews and UNSW colleague Dr Nick Titov, based at St Vincents Hospital, randomly assigned 45 people who met diagnostic criteria for depression to the Sadness step program or to a waitlist control group.
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