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Military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who live in rural areas successfully engaged in evidence-based psychotherapy through a telemedicine-based collaborative care model thereby improving their clinical outcomes, according to a report published online by JAMA Psychiatry.
John C. Fortney, Ph.D., of the University of Washington, Seattle, and co-authors tested a telemedicine based collaborative care model designed to improve engagement in evidence-based treatment of PTSD. They developed the Telemedicine Outreach for PTSD intervention to improve PTSD outcomes for veterans treated at Veterans Health Administration community-based outpatient clinics without on-site psychiatrists or psychologists.
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From archpsyc.jamanetwork.com
