Cost-effectiveness of therapist-guided internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for paediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from a randomised controlled trial
Conclusions
The results suggest that therapist-guided ICBT is a cost-effective treatment and results in societal cost savings, compared with patients who do not receive evidence-based treatment. Since, at present, most patients with OCD do not have access to evidence-based treatments, the results have important implications for the increasingly strained national and healthcare budgets. Future studies should compare the cost-effectiveness of ICBT with regular face-to-face CBT.
Trial registration number
NCT02191631.
Source: BMJ Open - Category: General Medicine Authors: Lenhard, F., Ssegonja, R., Andersson, E., Feldman, I., Rück, C., Mataix-Cols, D., Serlachius, E. Tags: Open access, Mental health Research Source Type: research
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