Depressed Persons Stay Longer with Phone Psychotherapy than with Office Visits

Researchers from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine have taken the first "snapshot" of telephone-administered therapy studies around the country.

Telephone therapy is becoming more widely used by health care providers and employee-assistance programs.

The new study found that the average attrition rate in the telephone therapy was only 7.6 percent compared to nearly 50 percent in face-to-face therapy. The telephone therapy also was effective in reducing depressive symptoms with results that appear to be similar to face-to-face treatment.

Read more at: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/09/mohrphone.html