Online messaging delivers follow-up care for depression

Online messaging delivered organized follow-up care for depression effectively and efficiently, in a randomized controlled trial of 208 patients. After five months, compared to patients randomly assigned to receive usual care, those who had three online care management contacts with a trained psychiatric nurse were significantly more likely to feel less depressed, take their antidepressant medication as prescribed, and be "very satisfied" with their depression treatment.

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