Experience with a rural telepsychiatry clinic for children and adolescents.
Access to child and adolescent psychiatric services in many rural areas is limited by lack of physicians and long travel times. A child and adolescent telepsychiatry clinic that is part of the University of Kansas Medical Center's telemedicine program addresses this problem by linking the medical center with a county mental health center in rural Pittsburg, Kansas. The clinic receives ten to 18 visits a week and has been able to serve severely disturbed children and children in crisis. The quality of clinical interactions in the telepsychiatry clinic appears comparable to that in face-to-face meetings.
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 66160, USA. dermer@kumc.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007615:Kansas; D008605:Mental Health Services; D019035:Rural Health Services; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D014741:Video Recording