Symptom-free in 21 days with 15 minutes per day with online self-help therapy? A 5-year longitudinal follow-up study on over 2.500 patients and in depth analysis of over 6.000 patients.
15Minutes4Me.com is an auto therapeutic daily Self-Help Program designed to help patients reduce Stress, Anxiety, Depression and other stress-related Psychosomatic Symptoms.
In our survey two thirds of our own registered e-health patients report to never have consulted a medical professional, despite our continuous efforts to motivate them and delivering them a weekly progression report with progression graphs for their psychiatrist or physician. Nor during nor after their online self-help psychotherapy! So this suggests that this form of auto therapy can help patients whom otherwise would never been helped, because modern patients also search for solutions on Dr. Google before or even without ever seeing a Psychiatrist, Physician, Psychologist, medical professional or Therapist.
In this descriptive longitudinal follow-up study we want to analyze and describe the evolution of patients DURING and AFTER participation in the Self-Help Program @ www.15Minutes4me.com, in order to get insight in their clinical evolution.
1° DURING participation @ ’15Minutes4Me.com’
During participation in the daily Self-Help Program ’15Minutes4Me.com’ we measure every 7 participation days the total DASS-21 Scores (Stress + Anxiety + Depression) and the subjective increase in life satisfaction with a 0-10 Scale. We analyze the dataset of all existing participants who attended the program for minimal 8 days.
Because the patient is free to decide how long he participates we calculate ‘exit’ scores in comparison to their ‘start’ scores in order to see how they are doing at their own moment of choice of discontinuing the program. Every 30 days the patient has to take a proactive decision to prolong the program or not. As a consequence it takes a clear decision to from the patient to renew the payment and re-subscribe for an additional 30 days. There exists NO automatic renewal.
In order to get clearer insight in the question when and why the patient discontinues, we calculated some years ago on 545 patients who attended the program during 21 days how many improved or not when exiting the program.
2° AFTER participation @ ’15Minutes4Me.com’
We invited all participants who terminated the program for more than 3 months to participate in a follow-up measurement of their scores. We got a response from 2.506, being 45% of the invited participants.
1° DURING participation @ ’15Minutes4Me.com’
During participation we observe that
2° AFTER participation @ ’15Minutes4Me.com’
In our Follow-up survey we got response from 45% of the participants, being 2.504 on 5.604 invited. We describe their scores:
For more nuanced details attend our workshop @ the World Psychiatry Congress in Berlin:
Dear colleagues, you are all invited at my lecture about our research @ the 17th World Psychiatry Congress in Berlin 2017.
We will present our research with 5 year Follow-Up study @ the 17th World Psychiatry Congress in Berlin 2017.
Join us Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 13:30 – 15:00 h, Room M4/M5.
We analyzed 2.500 patients over 5 years after following our program, while presenting results of more than 6.000 participants during their attendance of the 15Minutes4Me.com Program.
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 13:30 – 15:00 h, Room M4/M5 S Symposium (english): E-mental health is invading your world: How to discern quality from charlatanism
Chair: Prof. Dr. Stijn Jannes, MD
Co-Chair: Dr. J.P. Klein
Lecture in Symposium (english)
Symptom-free in 21 days with 15 minutes per day with online self-help therapy? A 5-year longitudinal follow-up study on over 2.500 patients @ http://www.wpaberlin2017.com/
Author: Dr. Paul Koeck, MD
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This abstract is a copy of the abstract at the conference app downloadable @ the World Congress website: http://www.wpaberlin2017.com/